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A panel of three judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against environmentalists Wednesday who were challenging permits issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for a liquid natural gas terminal and pipeline in Louisiana called the Driftwood project. Environmentalist groups Sierra [...]

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Thursday issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to increase network security monitoring for high and medium-impact bulk power systems to protect against cyberattacks. Existing Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) reliability standards focus on the security perimeter of computer networks, and there is concern that those standards do not address vulnerabilities [...]

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The US Supreme Court released an order on Wednesday granting the Biden administration’s request to remove oral arguments for challenges on now-defunct Trump administration immigration policies. The Supreme Court’s order separately granted a writ of certiorari in a natural-gas pipeline case. The removed cases, Mayorkas v. Innovation Law Lab and Biden v. Sierra Club, are [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld  New York’s Zero Emissions Credit (ZEC) program, which provides subsidies to specific nuclear power plants in New York for being greenhouse gas-emission free sources of energy. In the first two years of the program, the FitzPatrick, Ginna and Nine Mile Point nuclear power [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld  Illinois’ zero emission credit (ZEC) subsidies for the state’s nuclear power plants on Thursday. The ZECs require power producers in the state that generate electricity using coal or gas to purchase the ZECs from the nuclear power plants at a price of $16.50 per megawatt-hour. [...]

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