Orders

A federal district judge in Washington, DC, has ordered the Bush administration to release additional documents and records of the task force that was created by Vice President Dick Cheney to craft a national energy strategy.

A federal district judge in Washington, DC, has ordered the Bush administration to release additional documents and records of the task force that was created by Vice President Dick Cheney to produce a national energy strategy.

A large portion of the Department of Interior’s web site was disconnected from the Internet again last Tuesday after a federal district judge ruled the agency had failed miserably to beef up the security of its computer database containing information on royalties that are held and overseen by Interior in the Indian Trust Fund.

A large portion of the Department of Interior’s web site was disconnected from the Internet again Tuesday after a federal district judge ruled the agency had not beefed up its computer security for information on royalties that are held and overseen by Interior in the Indian Trust Fund.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) last week ordered FirstEnergy to file a plan with the commission showing how the company will correct problems identified by a U.S.-Canada task force in an interim report on causes contributing to the Aug. 14 blackout.

FERC last week ordered bankrupt NRG Power Marketing Inc. to continue providing power to Connecticut Light and Power Inc. (CL&P) until the Commission decides whether NRG Power Marketing’s efforts to cancel a power contract with CL&P meet the Mobile-Sierra “public interest” standard.

Quickly responding to a complaint filed by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC), FERC ordered NRG Power Marketing Inc. to continue providing service to Connecticut Light & Power Co. (CL&P) after NRG proposed canceling a power contract it had entered into with CL&P.

President Bush has signed an executive order that calls for an existing interagency task force to take steps to speed up permitting of repairs to both natural gas and liquid product pipelines.

President Bush last week signed an executive order that calls for an existing interagency task force to take steps to speed up permitting of repairs to both natural gas and liquid product pipelines.