The Third Circuit granted petitions to review FERC orders allowing the administrator of a 2024/2025 capacity auction to apply a new rule retroactively to a pending action to avoid a spike in electricity prices.
The Tenth Circuit affirmed dismissal of an environmental group's petition to review FWS' revised land management plan for the Rio Grande National Forest.
The March issue of ELR features articles on FWS' "experimental populations" rule responding to climate change threats; what's happening with management of natural resources; whether risk aversion at NRC will avert the energy transition; the tyranny of environmental baselines; and avoiding performative climate justice. The issue also includes a transcript from a recent webinar that discussed the new American Climate Corps program and existing climate corps programs across the country.
The NRC has substantial headroom to reform its regulations while preserving an ample margin of safety for the public and can draw lessons from EPA in developing technology-inclusive and risk-informed policies.