After more than two years and much debate, FERC recently approved Gas Transmission Northwest LLC's (GTN) GTN XPress Project. GTN XPress was designed to add 150,000 Dth/d of pipeline capacity to the GTN system, enabling it to...more
Buried toward the end of the 91-page bill unveiled by Senator Manchin on September 21, 2022, is a small but significant provision amending the Natural Gas Act's (NGA) definition of natural gas to include "hydrogen mixed or...more
Just one month after issuing two policy statements expected to seriously impact the processing of applications for gas infrastructure projects, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has made a midcourse correction...more
At its February 2022 meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved two policy statements that will significantly affect its processing of applications for gas infrastructure projects. In its Updated...more
At his first Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) meeting this past December, Chairman Kevin McIntyre announced the agency will be soliciting comments on whether to revise its 1999 Certificate Policy Statement (CPS),...more
In light of reduced corporate tax rates as the result of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Tax Act), a broad coalition of gas industry trade associations and gas producers recently filed a petition with the Federal Energy...more
One of the major recent changes made to the federal tax code as the result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was the reduction in corporate income tax from 35 percent to 21 percent. As soon as the corporate tax cuts took effect at...more