Following a week of extremely cold temperatures which caused millions of Texans to be without power, in some cases for longer that three days, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced that it will be...more
2/19/2021
/ Electric Generation Suppliers ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Investigations ,
Natural Gas ,
Power Grid ,
Power Infrastructure ,
Severe Weather ,
Texas ,
Transmission Grid
On January 23, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) adopted the Office of Environmental Projects’ (OEP) Environmental Assessment (EA) of Buckeye XPress, concluding that the project will have “no significant...more
In a recent declaratory order, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) asserted the right of its certificate holders to “exercise eminent domain authority over state-owned land.” The Natural Gas Act (“NGA”) provides...more
2/25/2020
/ Condemnation ,
Eminent Domain ,
Federalism ,
FERC ,
Legitimate State Interest ,
Natural Gas ,
Natural Gas Act ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Sovereign Immunity ,
Statutory Interpretation