Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to initiate a rulemaking to accelerate American manufacturing and ensure that the United States continues to lead in artificial intelligence.
Key reforms to federal energy regulations are needed to meet the United States’ growing natural gas and electricity demands as outdated red tape is “masquerading as oversight,” the ALFA Institute said in a new report.
A coalition of 17 state attorneys general filed a motion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to stop BlackRock from forcing utility companies to adopt left-wing Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies.
Sens. Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin are among lawmakers calling for FERC to lift rules hampering the production of natural gas.
New England “had to import LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] from Russia because we didn’t have infrastructure going through places like New York.”
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chief of Staff Anthony Pugliese told Breitbart News Sunday that New York Democratic primary nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal to transition to a 100-percent renewable energy system by 2035 is an admirable, but naïve goal.
The California Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) cost estimates for the Oroville Dam crisis and repair have spiked to $870 million, after an independent forensic report blamed the state for misleading the public about its knowledge of dangerous conditions.
The City of Oroville will file the first of what could be hundreds of lawsuits against the State of California for allegedly lying about known dangerous conditions at Oroville Dam.
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) technical report has admitted that 75 percent of the newly repaired cement slabs in the Oroville Dam’s spillway already have cracks. The DWR report for the California-owned dam was issued on Nov. 2
Oroville Dam neighbors and downstream residents blasted California officials for claiming they should not worry about hundreds of cracks in the newly reconstructed dam spillway.
The California Department of Water Resources acknowledged this week that many cracks have appeared in the new concrete of the Oroville Dam spillway, which cost over $500 million to repair.
Oroville Dam and its infamous spillway that failed and threatened 200,000 Californian lives passed its 2014 regulatory “failure mode and effects analysis” with top safety ratings.
The new American Society of Civil Engineers 2017 Infrastructure Report Card (ASCE) has identified 15,498 high-hazard dams, whose failure could risk loss of life.
The forecast is for more rain around the Oroville Dam – and potential disaster for hundreds of thousands of Californians living downstream from its poorly designed emergency spillway.
The Oroville Dam crisis is highlighting concerns that there are substantial risks to the integrity of California’s 1,500 regulated dams due to age and infrastructure underfunding.
One year ago, Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, announced the controversial centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s climate change legacy: the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rule is slated for finalization this summer.
