Energy (generally)
H.R. 8646
Update Type
Bills Introduced
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8646
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Levin
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
10
Volume
52
Update Issue
22
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. H7544

would assign a resident inspector to certain commercial nuclear power plants to conduct inspections of decommissioning activities and spent nuclear fuel transfer activities.

H.R. 8639
Update Type
Bills Introduced
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8639
Committee Name
Committees on Appropriations and the Budget
Sponsor Name
Golden
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Me.
Issue
10
Volume
52
Update Issue
22
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. H7544

would make supplemental appropriations to carry out the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program for fiscal year 2022.

H.R. 8614
Update Type
Bills Introduced
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8614
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Houlahan
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Pa.
Issue
9
Volume
52
Update Issue
22
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. H7538

would amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to prohibit the export or sale of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to certain entities.

S. 4651
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Bills Introduced
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4651
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Sponsor Name
Barrasso
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Wyo.
Issue
9
Volume
52
Update Issue
22
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. S3782

would amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Secretary of Energy to stipulate, as a condition on the sale at auction of any petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, that the petroleum products not be exported to certain countries, and prohibit such sales to certain state-owned entities.

Comment on Shelley Welton, Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era
Author
Casey Roberts
Author Bios (long)

Casey Roberts is a Senior Attorney at the Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program.

Date
August 2022
Volume
52
Issue
8
Page
10652
Type
Comment(s)
Summary

In Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era, Shelley Welton has incisively described the underexplored institutional role of regional transmission organizations (RTOs) in facilitating decarbonization. As an attorney who advocates within the RTO stakeholder process, and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the federal courts, I see firsthand how the RTO processes for identifying and addressing emerging issues can succeed or be derailed, and the limitations in FERC’s ability to proactively set these processes and their outcomes straight. I agree with Welton that RTOs cannot be trusted to self-govern and that many factors militate against treating them with a lighter hand than a run-of-the-mill utility. But I am more sanguine than Prof. Shelley Welton that FERC has sufficient ability to shape RTO processes and outcomes in a manner that protects consumers and advances decarbonization.

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