A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on Dec. 4, 2014.

U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said he will ask the Supreme Court to review an appellate court ruling voiding the FERC’s authority over DR in wholesale energy markets.

The DOJ is investigating the interconnection process in PJM’s MAAC sub-region as part of its anti-trust review of Exelon’s $6.8 billion takeover of Pepco.

PJM’s Board of Managers will file its Capacity Performance proposal this week with FERC to increase the reliability expectations of capacity resources with a “no excuses” policy.

Utilities and independent power producers said the EPA should delay or eliminate the interim goals in its proposed Clean Power Plan.

Janet McCabe said last week that the EPA had met with more than 300 groups since releasing its proposed Clean Power Plan in June.

RGGI generally supported the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan and suggested other areas of the country could follow its lead.

PJM called for a reliability “safety valve” in the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan to ensure provisions for minimizing reliability impacts on the grid.

NYISO: The EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan threatens reliability in New York City due to the city’s frequent dependence on local oil-fueled generators.

SPP and MISO warned of a reliability crisis if the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan isn’t eased to account for up to 134 GW of generation retirements by 2020, most of them coal-fired units.