FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

Articles and editorials

Bipartisan Energy Deal? Overriding Biden’s NEPA Rules Blockade Is Essential for Fossil Fuels and Solar and Wind Power, S2631 [19MY]

How To Kill American Infrastructure on the Sly—The White House Revises NEPA Rules That Will Scuttle New Roads, Bridges and Oil and Gas Pipelines, S2631 [19MY], S2886 [9JN]

Bills and resolutions

Electirc power: allocation of costs of certain interstate electric power transmission lines and electric power transmission lines located offshore (see H.R. 9326), H8586 [17NO]

Electric power: issue rule enhancing regional transmission organization and independent system operator independence and responsiveness (see H.R. 8302), H5939 [7JY]

——— promulgate regulations on regional and interregional planning to improve electricity infrastructure, reduce costs for ratepayers, and promote clean energy (see S. 3879), S1253 [17MR]

——— provide for minimum transfer capability requirements between transmission planning regions (see H.R. 8303), H5939 [7JY]

——— request President and direct Sec. of Energy to transmit information to House of Representatives on plans to protect baseload bulk power system generation and transmission to maintain system reliability (see H. Res. 1326), H7727 [26AU]

——— require certain agencies to report to Congress on study on establishing or modifying reliability standard to ensure reliable operation of thermoelectric power plants during droughts (see H.R. 8311), H5940 [7JY]

——— require transmission organizations to accept bids from aggregators of certain retail customers (see S. 5111), S6740 [16NO]

——— require transmission organizations to allow bids from aggregators of certain retail customers (see H.R. 8738), H7720 [23AU]

Federal agencies and departments: prohibit promulgation of new oil and gas regulations until after Russian troops have withdrawn from Ukraine (see S. 3822), S1119 [10MR]

——— prohibit use of flawed or biased environmental metrics in rulemaking process unless such metrics are compliant with OMB guidance (see S. 4596), S3611 [21JY] (see H.R. 8499), H7168 [26JY]

——— require applicable Federal agencies to take action on applications for Federal energy authorizations (see S. 3982), S1910 [31MR]

Government regulations: provide that certain policy statements shall have no force or effect unless certain conditions are met (see S. 3908), S1749 [23MR] (see S. 4451), S3075 [22JN]

Natural gas: bolster fairness and transparency in consideration of interstate natural gas pipeline permits and provide for greater public input in pipeline permitting process (see S. 4864), S4638 [15SE] (see H.R. 8847), H7880 [15SE]

Pipelines: facilitate pipeline construction and limit regulatory and litigation delays under Federal Water Pollution Control Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Endangered Species Act (see S. 5165), S6941 [1DE] (see H.R. 9372), H8707 [1DE]

Power resources: protect consumers from manipulation of electricity and natural gas markets by traders (see S. 4679), S3782 [28JY] (see H.R. 8578), H7404 [28JY]

Remarks in House

Biden, President: evaluation of administration relative to energy policy, H4810 [11MY], H4877 [12MY], H4924 [13MY]

Electric power: initiate rulemaking to reform interregional transmission planning process, H9692 [13DE]

Natural Gas Act: provide for Federal and State agency coordination in approval of certain authorizations (H.R. 1616), H6665 [15JY]

Remarks in Senate

Natural gas: bolster fairness and transparency in consideration of interstate natural gas pipeline permits and provide for greater public input in pipeline permitting process (S. 4864), S4641 [15SE]

Reports filed

Request President and Direct Sec. of Energy To Transmit Plans To Protect Baseload Bulk Power System Generation and Transmission To Maintain System Reliability: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H. Res. 1326) (H. Rept. 117–535), H8369 [30SE]

Texts of

S. 5111, Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act, S6743 [16NO]