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Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Daniel L. Larcamp, Clifford S. Sikora, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 30, 2013, previously published on January 28, 2013 On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, FERC conditionally accepted ISO New England Inc.’s (“ISO-NE”) proposed revisions to its Information Policy, which allows ISO-NE to share confidential, generator-specific data with certain interstate natural gas pipeline operators. Notably, FERC...
| | Court Denies Rehearing of Decision Overturning CSAPR
Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Daniel L. Larcamp, Clifford S. Sikora, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 30, 2013, previously published on January 28, 2013 On January 24, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit refused to rehear a decision of a three-judge panel of the court that overturned EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (“CSAPR”). CSAPR addressed the interstate transport of pollutants emitted by electric...
| | EPA Proposes to Reconsider UMACT Limits for New Sources
Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Daniel L. Larcamp, Clifford S. Sikora, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 7, 2012, previously published on December 3, 2012 Late in the day on Friday, November 16, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a proposal to reconsider maximum achievable control technology standards for hazardous air pollutant emissions from new electric generating units (referred to as “UMACT”)....
| | FERC Conditionally Approves Modifications to MISO’s Generator Retirement Procedures Proposed in Light of New Environmental Regulations
Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Daniel L. Larcamp, Clifford S. Sikora, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 3, 2012, previously published on October 1, 2012 On September 21, 2012, FERC conditionally approved the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.’s (“MISO”) revisions to its tariff provisions that designate System Support Resources (“SSRs”) and delay the retirement or suspension of certain generation...
| | FERC Commissioners Urge Congress to Resolve Conflicting Environmental Regulations and Reliability Standards
Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Clifford S. Sikora, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article September 14, 2012, previously published on September 10, 2012 On August 27, 2012, FERC Commissioners Tony Clark and Phillip Moeller issued separate concurring opinions in an order regarding the results of ISO-New England, Inc.’s (“ISO-NE”) sixth Forward Capacity Auction. In those concurrences, the two Commissioners urged Congress to take...
| | EPA Determines Not to Lower Current Greenhouse Gas Permitting Thresholds
Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Clifford S. Sikora, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article July 13, 2012, previously published on July 9, 2012 On June 29, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) finalized Step 3 of its Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule, but decided not to lower the 75,000 and 100,000 ton-per-year emission thresholds that currently allow minor sources of greenhouse gases to avoid permitting requirements....
| | GenOn Claims New England Unit Caught Between EPA and ISO-New England
Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Clifford S. Sikora, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 30, 2012, previously published on June 26, 2012 On June 14, 2012, GenOn Energy Management, LLC and GenOn Kendall, LLC (collectively, “GenOn”) filed a pleading with FERC arguing that GenOn’s Kendall plant in Massachusetts may be forced to choose between violating the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) or violating the ISO-New...
| | Court Demands New PM Standards from EPA in Less Than a Week
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2012, previously published on June 4, 2012 At the end of last week, the District Court for the District of Columbia ordered EPA to release a new national ambient air quality standard for particulate matter (”PM”) by this Thursday, June 7th. The decision appears to reflect frustration by the court at EPA’s reluctance to...
| | EPA Confirms that Cross-State Rule Trading Programs Satisfy Regional Haze Requirements
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2012, previously published on June 4, 2012 On May 30, 2012, EPA finalized its proposal to allow states to use compliance with the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (”CSAPR”) as an alternative to the Best Available Retrofit Technology (”BART”) requirements for individual sources under the Clean Air Act regional haze...
| | President Obama Nominates Allison Macfarlane to NRC
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2012, previously published on June 4, 2012 On May 24, 2012, President Obama nominated Allison Macfarlane to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”). Dr. Macfarlane, if confirmed, will replace Chairman Gregory Jaczko as the Chair of the NRC for the remainder of the term expiring June 30, 2013.
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