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Supreme Court Holds that Natural Gas Act Delegates Eminent Domain Power, Allowing FERC Certificate-Holders to Condemn State-Owned Property
USA - July 8 2021 On June 29, in PennEast Pipeline Co., LLC v. New Jersey et al., No. 19-1039, the Supreme Court rejected New Jersey’s sovereign immunity arguments and…
FERC’s 2020 Annual Report on Enforcement: Key Focus for Pipeline Companies
USA - December 4 2020 On November 19, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Office of Enforcement (Enforcement) issued the 2020 Annual Report on…
CEQ Releases Long-Awaited Final Rule to Improve NEPA Regulations
USA - July 27 2020 On July 16, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published its highly anticipated final rule to improve its National Environmental Policy…
Dakota Access Pipeline Must Shutdown While Corps Prepares Environmental Impact Statement
USA - July 8 2020 On July 6, the US District Court for the District of Columbia found that the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) must shut down while the US Army Corps of…
Key Northeastern States Take Steps to Study the Transition to Net-Zero GHG Emissions
USA - June 26 2020 On June 4, 2020, the Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) filed a Petition which requested the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) to…
Proposed Legislation Seeks to Block Pipelines From Vaguely-Defined “Conservation” Lands without Considering Adverse Impacts of Re-Routes
USA - November 8 2019 Last week, Annie Kuster (D-NH) along with four other Democratic members of Congress introduced a proposed Natural Gas Act (NGA) amendment aimed at…
Pipeline Company Can’t Join “Tree Sitters” in NGA Condemnation Action, But Still Has Other Remedies Against Them, Virginia Federal Court Says
USA - August 20 2019 Over the last year or so, anti-pipeline forces have increasingly used “tree sitting” to obstruct natural gas infrastructure projects. The tactic…
LNG a Focus of Recent Executive Order
USA - May 29 2019 The Trump administration's recent executive order, Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth (April 10, 2019), signals potentially…
First Circuit Says No Statute of Limitations Defense to Natural Gas Act Preemption Claim; FERC’s Policy of Encouraging Cooperation with Localities Creates No Enforceable Duty
USA - April 22 2019 In Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC v. Weymouth Massachusetts, a First Circuit panel last month ruled that a statute of limitations defense is…
LNG Export Terminal Approval May Provide Model for Future FERC Climate Change Analyses
USA - March 4 2019 Last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made some headway in how it evaluates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural…
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