Posts from — January 2011

On January 20, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) conditionally approved the Violation Risk Factors (“VRF”) and Violations Severity Levels (“VSL”) for version 2 and 3 of the Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) reliability standards.  The CIP standards encompass many security concerns including sabotage reporting and cyber security. [Read more →]

On January 18, 2011 President Barack Obama issued an executive order requiring government agencies to periodically examine rules and regulations and to make changes to existing rules that are “ineffective or excessively burdensome.” [Read more →]

According to the latest data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) Renewable Energy is becoming a larger part of domestic energy production in the United States.  EIA publishes a Monthly Energy Review (the “Review”) which examines the latest figures regarding all sources of energy.  [Read more →]

On January 12, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that biomass-fired sources will be able to receive a three year deferral on greenhouse gas (“GHG”) permitting requirements for CO2 emissions. [Read more →]

On January 10, 2010, the United States Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) stated that it will not review the Comer v. Murphy Oil case, which is a class-action suit against energy, fossil fuel and chemical companies doing business in Mississippi [Read more →]