In the latest chapter of a hotly contested environmental issue, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled the final version of an interim national strategy outlining the steps it will take to protect and restore the sage grouse habitat on America’s public lands.
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BLM’s Strategy to Preserve Sage Grouse Comes Under Environmental Fire
In the latest chapter of a hotly contested environmental issue, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled the final version of an interim national strategy outlining the steps it will take to protect and restore the sage grouse habitat on America’s public lands.
BLM’s Strategy to Preserve Sage Grouse Comes Under Environmental Fire
In the latest chapter of a hotly contested environmental issue, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled the final version of an interim national strategy outlining the steps it will take to protect and restore the sage grouse habitat on America’s public lands.
FERC Moves to Provide Guidance Related to RTO Filings
FERC last week moved to provide guidance and clarification related to the elements of filings made by regional transmission organizations (RTOs) in response to a decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
FERC OKs Key Elements of New England Market Design Proposal
FERC last Wednesday gave its stamp of approval to the lion’s share of a proposal made by New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) and ISO New England that will set up a standard market design (SMD) for the New England region and, more broadly, help to standardize regional wholesale power markets both across the northeast and the rest of the United States.
MS Regulator Skeptical on Electric Competition Benefits
Although the state appears to have all the elements in place to successfully open its electricity markets to competition, the chairman of the Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) continues to harbor serious doubts as to how such a move will accrue to the benefit of the state’s retail customers.
Prices Drop; SoCal Border Cheapest in More than a Year
Having lost much of the supporting elements for higher prices from earlier in the week, the cash market yielded to the inevitable Friday with sizeable across-the-board declines. Losses were measured in the teens at nearly all eastern points, while larger drops in the West were topped by dollar-plus plunges at the California border-SoCalGas and OFO-devastated PG&E citygate.
Davis Outlines State Buyout of Power Lines
California Gov. Gray Davis “delivered” on his plan to buy outthe transmission systems of the financially-troubled investor-ownedutilities in the state Friday, outlining the framework of a deal,but with no dollar signs attached and no on-the-record agreementswith the utilities.
EPA Questions Alliance NGLs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found some missingelements in the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS)prepared by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on theAlliance Pipeline project which is in competition with Voyaguer tocarry western Canadian supplies to the Chicago area.