FERC

Electricity wholesaler PJM has been charged by its Market Monitor with undermining oversight that could help keep electricity prices down

July 10, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to hold a full hearing to investigate charges against a major electric power company that could affect electricity prices in New Jersey, 12 other states and the District of Columbia.    » read more »

Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program

June 25, 2007 -- The June 22 decision by the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the case Colorado Consumer Counsel, et al v. FERC did not address the fundamental legal issues raised by Public Citizen on behalf of a group of state and national consumer advocates challenging the lawfulness of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) “market-based” rate regime promulgated in recent years.    » read more »

Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Repeal Section 1221 of EPACT 2005

May 3, 2007 -- Today Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope appeared with Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Frank Wolf (R-VA), Mike Arcuri (D-NY), John Hall (D-NY), and Chris Carney (D-PA), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and numerous other environmental and historic preservation groups to speak out against the transmission line corridors designated last week by the Department of Energy (DOE) under the auspices of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Reps.    » read more »

April 25, 2007 -- Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced she is submitting testimony to Congress warning that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been given too much authority to overrule individual states when it comes to making decisions about the siting and permitting of utility projects.    » read more »