A House panel heard testimony on Democratic proposals to address cost allocation problems and increase federal authority over siting of transmission.

When congressional Democrats first introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act in January 2020, it was already a mammoth 622 pages long. But the updated version of the bill before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change now weighs in...

In letters issued Wednesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee requested an update from heads of several federal agencies — including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm — on their response to last year’s SolarWinds cyberattack. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm | Department of...

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations spent nearly three hours Wednesday questioning former EPA administrators and others about what Congress can do to revitalize the agency, just before the Senate confirmed its newest leader, Michael Regan. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) | House Committee on Energy &...

President Biden’s early directives on environmental justice do not go far enough, Kerene Tayloe, director of legislative affairs for WE ACT for Environmental Justice, told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee Tuesday. Rather than just receiving a update from Biden, Tayloe said, President Bill Clinton’s 27-year-old Executive Order 12898 should...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Grid modernization and security were the focus of two U.S. House of Representatives committees last week as four bipartisan bills cleared the Energy and Commerce Committee and a second panel held hearings on two other legislative proposals. The House SST Committee's Energy Subcommittee held hearings on...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Tom Hassenboehler used to work for Sen. James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who famously brought a snowball to the floor of the Senate in 2015 to make the case that the Earth couldn’t be warming. Has the level of debate improved since then? Yes,...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Having regained control of the House of Representatives after eight years in the minority, Democrats have put a lot on their plate, including investigating President Trump’s finances and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. But last week, House Democrats added climate change to their...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC can’t overturn the New England Power Pool’s longstanding ban on public and press access to stakeholder meetings, NEPOOL told the commission Thursday. In a motion to dismiss RTO Insider’s protest seeking to open meetings to the public and press, NEPOOL said FERC lacks jurisdiction to...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC Chairman Kevin McIntyre has defended Chief of Staff Anthony Pugliese, saying his controversial remarks did not reflect commission policy or threaten its independence and impartiality. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the ranking members of the House and Senate energy committees, sent...