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California Public Utilities Commission approves tradable renewable energy credit scheme

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 19 2010

California's Public Utilities Commission has authorized the procurement and use of tradable renewable energy credits (TRECs) for compliance with the California renewables portfolio standard (RPS) program, which will allow electric utilities to buy and sell credits to meet the state's renewable energy goals

Report claims small drop in power plant mercury emissions

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 26 2010

A recent report by the Environmental Integrity Project claims that mercury emissions from power plants dropped by 6.5 percent between 2000 and 2008

NEPAwater resources: federal court upholds injunction in water supply project lawsuit

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 19 2010

A federal judge in the District of Columbia has upheld an injunction preventing the completion of the Northwest Area Water Supply Project until the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) completes an adequate environmental impact statement (EIS) that takes a “hard look” at the cumulative impact of water withdrawal and invasive species issues

Reorganization: MMS to establish separate enforcement office

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 21 2010

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced that the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS), which currently oversees offshore oil and gas drilling and collects an average of $13 billion a year in royalties, will be split into two separate offices

NEPA: conservation group sues MMS over alleged lax oversight of drilling operations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 28 2010

Defenders of Wildlife has reportedly sued the Minerals Management Service (MMS) over an alleged failure to apply its own regulations on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and continued lax oversight of drilling operations

Air: Oklahoma AG seeks EPA action against Texas power plants

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 28 2010

Oklahoma Attorney General (AG) W.A. Drew Edmondson (D) has sent a letter to EPA Region 6 Administrator Alfredo Armandariz requesting that EPA take enforcement or other action regarding several Texas coal-fired power plants that “have, at a minimum, the potential to adversely affect air quality in Oklahoma.”

NEPA: Ninth Circuit allows drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 21 2010

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) properly approved plans for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas by Shell Offshore Inc

Citizen suit seeks to halt construction of silicon plant

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 26 2010

A Washington resident has filed a citizen suit under section 7604 of the Clean Air Act seeking to halt construction of a $688 million expansion of a Moses Lake silicon plant

California Supreme Court rules SCAQMD must consider emissions of permitted equipment

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 26 2010

The California Supreme Court recently ruled that the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is required to consider already-permitted equipment that predated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) when it conducts an environmental impact analysis of upgrades at a Los Angeles refinery

Air: Ohio utility to settle alleged NSR violations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 28 2010

An Ohio non-profit utility has agreed to settle alleged Clean Air Act New Source Review (NSR) violations by paying a civil penalty of $850,000 and spending $15 million on an environmental mitigation project