This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Energy Department.

A key House committee approved what would be the first comprehensive energy legislation in eight years, but hopes for passage dimmed after amendments favored by the oil and gas industry and reductions in funding eroded bipartisan support.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on a letter from U.S. senators to President Obama, NRC, the Northern Pass line and the PennEast pipeline.

A FERC administrative law judge will attempt to settle TransSource’s complaint against PJM concerning the costs of three network upgrades that the company says are being inflated by transmission owners.

FERC sided with SPP's Market Monitoring Unit in a long-running dispute with generators over what costs can be included in mitigated offers.

FERC has charged Coaltrain Energy, a Pennsylvania-based power trading company with manipulating the PJM wholesale market.

Seeking to improve its ability to unravel complicated market manipulation schemes, FERC proposed a new way for identifying connections between companies and individuals.

FERC upheld its decision requiring Northern States Power to continue purchasing electricity from a small hydroelectric plant, maintaining that the plant does not have access to MISO's capacity market.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Yucca Mountain, the White House and the Federal Reserve.

FERC approved MISO's rate schedules for the system support resource agreements at three aging power plants on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.