Environmental Regulations
Dominion Energy reported demand growth from data centers in its territory and that its CVOW offshore wind project was more than halfway complete on its second quarter earnings call.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proudly told NARUC attendees the agency’s proposed rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding would be the “largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.”
EPA is proposing to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding, which qualifies greenhouse gases as pollutants and has been used by Democratic presidential administrations to regulate emissions from power plants and other sources.
After DOE ignored their rehearing requests, opponents of its Federal Power Act order keeping the J.H. Campbell plant have appealed the issue to the courts.
A CATF report argues that planners need to use demand-side resources, grid-enhancing technologies and other quick-to-deploy resources as part of a "least-regrets" effort to meet growing demand.
BPA said it is revising future power rates by removing millions of dollars of costs associated with a Biden administration agreement with Northwest tribes aimed at restoring salmon habitat and potentially breaching dams on the Snake River.
FERC changed its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act in compliance with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14154, “Unleashing American Energy."
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council hired Peter Cogswell, the former director of intergovernmental affairs at BPA, as its next executive director.
President Trump issued a memo directing the federal government to withdraw from a deal with four tribes and two states that considered the future operation of four dams on the Lower Snake River and eventually could have led to their breach.
EPA proposed repealing rules passed by previous administrations that impose carbon limits on existing and new power plants and the 2024 updates to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard.
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