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Laying the Groundwork

American Gas Association

As the new president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Tricia Pridemore is keeping it simple: Natural gas is part of what our nation needs to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy. Id be satisfied with access to more natural gas storage and pipelines.

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Expropriation ruling explains landowner’s burden to prove severance damages to a “legal certainty.”

The Energy Law

On November 8, the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals added to the relatively sparse body of appellate rulings in pipeline expropriation matters. Enterprise expropriated part of a large tract of undeveloped riverfront property for an NGL pipeline. In Enterprise Products Operating, LLC, v. Southwood Terminal, L.L.C.,

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MADE IN AMERICA: U.S.-Built Offshore Wind Substation and Support Vessels Start to Set Sail for Federal Waters

The Energy Law

The substation’s maiden voyage marks a major milestone in the development of Jones Act compliant offshore wind vessels necessary to bring the large amount of federal utility-scale projects in the pipeline to fruition. 1331 et seq. back in 2021.

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A Summary of Professor Jim Rossi’s Lecture on the “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation”

The Energy Law

The examples include the Constitution Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline segment connecting Pennsylvania to New York, and the Plains & Eastern Clean Line Project, a direct current transmission line transporting wind energy from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas to Tennessee, Arkansas, and the rest of the south and southeast.

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Louisiana Appeals Court Finds Environmental Justice Is Part of the Louisiana Public Trust Duty

The Energy Law

While current industry and agency practice generally incorporate EJ analyses into the permitting process, the court’s decision cements the need for environmental justice analyses to satisfy the Public Trust Doctrine and provides a more definite avenue for challenging permits based on EJ. What is EJ?

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Renewable Energy Efforts Highlighted in Draft Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Louisiana

The Energy Law

Support the safe and equitable deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) for high-intensity and hard-to-abate emissions: Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a suite of technologies that can play a significant role in GHG emission reduction. Noteworthy actions include: ACTION 5.6

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Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Expropriation of Commercial Venture

The Energy Law

LLC (the “Landowner”) which utilized the property to layberth and service oceangoing ships for the United States Navy. Bernard Port, Harbor & Terminal District (the “Port”), a government-owned public cargo facility, sought to expand its operations along the Mississippi River.