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Explainer: US agency to unveil plan to ease power transmission crunch

May 13, 2024

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Iowa Supreme Court blocks law favoring in-state electric grid developers

March 24, 2023

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Justices ask government for input on Texas electric grid dispute

March 7, 2023

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How private equity squeezes cash from the dying U.S. coal industry

“I’m confident, in the next couple of years, FERC will order changes,” said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School.

March 3, 2021

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Trump administration rolls back curbs on oil industry methane emissions

Joe Goffman, former EPA senior counsel and director at Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, said reducing methane from oil and gas is necessary to combat climate change.

August 24, 2020

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Trump to revamp environmental law in bid to fast track pipelines, roads

The CEQ received over 1 million comments after the January proposal, many of which opposed the changes and offered evidence that they could have “harmful results,” said Caitlin McCoy, a staff attorney for the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program.

July 15, 2020

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Trump administration replaces Obama-era power plant rule, in boost to coal

Joe Goffman, executive director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard said the new regulation could allow some coal-fired power plants to avoid retirement by making “hardware fixes and operational changes”.

June 20, 2019