On May 6, 2022, the Department of Energy issued a notice of DOE’s intent to implement the Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP) and to request input regarding the solicitation and qualification process for TFP funding.
The TFP is
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Office of Environmental Justice & Reviving Supplemental Environmental Projects
By Chris Colyer
by Luke Narducci and Amanda Reeve
On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (“USDOJ”) announced the launch of a new comprehensive environmental justice (“EJ”) strategy. The three-prong strategy, as laid out by the U.S. Attorney General in an…
Pushing the United Nations for Recognition of Access to a Clean Environment as a Human Right
By Chris Colyer
by John Habib
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed Resolution 48/13 in October 2021. The Resolution recognizes as a human right a person’s access to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Non-governmental organizations are now pushing the United Nations…
Basin States Agree to Reduced Colorado River Deliveries
By Chris Colyer
Less than two weeks ago, we wrote that the Department of Interior proposed reducing Colorado River deliveries in 2022 by 480,000 acre-feet and that Assistant Secretary Trujillo had asked the Basin States for comments on this proposal. …
Feds Considering Emergency Reductions to Colorado River Deliveries
By Chris Colyer
In an April 8, 2022 letter to each of the seven Colorado River basin states, the Interior Department asked for comments by April 22 about its plan to reduce releases from Glen Canyon Dam to 7.0 million…
Alphabet’s Wing Initiates Drone Delivery Service in Texas
By Chris Colyer
On April 7, 2022, Alphabet’s Wing launched commercial drone delivery service in two suburban towns north of Dallas, Texas – Frisco and Little Elm where Wing had been testing its service over the last year following…
Supreme Court Reinstates Trump Clean Water Rule (For Now)
By Chris Colyer
On Wednesday, April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision stayed a Northern District of California Court decision that both remanded and vacated EPA Trump-era rules regarding water quality certification of projects under Clean…
FERC Seeks Over $508 Million to Accomplish 2023 Strategic Priorities
By Chris Colyer
Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) submitted its Fiscal Year 2023 Congressional Justification. This document, which is submitted annually, consolidates the Annual Performance Plan with the Performance Budget Request for the primary purpose of communicating…
EPA Removes Obstacles to “Sue and Settle”
By Chris Colyer
In a memo to agency leadership sent earlier this month, EPA Administrator Michael Regan rescinded practices that were instituted by one of his Trump-era predecessors, Scott Pruitt, to eliminate what has been referred to by some…
The Geopolitics of Energy
By Chris Colyer
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought to the forefront the key role that energy policy plays in international relations. Many countries sympathetic to Ukraine, but not wanting to escalate the conflict by sending troops, have discussed…