August 3, 2020

REGULATORY UPDATE FOR AUGUST 3 (COVERING WEEK OF JULY 27)

Our energy regulatory team has compiled a list of state and federal energy regulatory developments to keep you up to speed on key energy regulatory matters from across the United States. Stoel’s energy regulatory team is always available to answer questions about any of these developments. Energy regulatory highlights for this week include:

FERC

President Trump announced the nomination of Mark Christie (Republican), the current chairman of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Allison Clements (Democrat), founder and president of Goodgrid, LLC, to be commissioners at FERC.

On July 23rd, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted FERC’s July 6th motion for a 90-day stay of the court’s mandate in the Allegheny Defense Project v. FERC case, in which the D.C. Circuit had rejected FERC’s long-standing practice of issuing “tolling orders” to give itself more time to consider requests for rehearing.
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