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NRC Regulatory Reform in the Trump Era?

USA - April 19 2017 Faced with intense cost pressure from inexpensive natural gas and incentivized renewables, the nuclear energy industry has actively searched in…

Tyson R. Smith

Maintaining The Nuclear Option: Should The Market Monitor Oppose ZECs?

USA - March 27 2017 On March 16, 2017, Monitoring Analytics, LLC, acting in its role as the Independent Market Monitor for PJM, moved to intervene as plaintiff in an…

Tyson R. Smith

Judge Gorsuch and Judicial Deference to Executive Agencies

USA - February 8 2017 The nomination of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court has focused attention on the issue of “Chevron deference” and whether that doctrine has given…

DOE Stays Implementation of Revised Employee Retaliation Regulations

USA - February 7 2017 On January 31, 2017, the Department of Energy (DOE) stayed regulations that would have permitted DOE to assess civil penalties against certain…

Tyson R. Smith

What Will the Trump Administration Do for Nuclear Energy?

USA - December 29 2016 As 2016 closes, there is ample evidence that we are in difficult times for nuclear energy in the United States, particularly for nuclear plants…

Tyson R. Smith