The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”) issued Hydro Resources, Inc. (“HRI”) a license to conduct in situ leach mining for uranium on four sites in northwest New Mexico. In this case, Petitioners—Eastern Diné Against Uranium Mining, a Navajo community organization, Southwest Research an...   MORE>>

This case involves the balance the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (“the Act”) strikes between providing newer competitors access to previously monopolistic telecommunications markets, on the one hand, and encouraging and protecting infrastructure investments of older, incumbent telecommunication...   MORE>>

In Pacific Northwest Generating Coop. v. Dep’t of Energy (“PNGC”), 550 F.3d 846 (9th Cir. 2008), amended on denial of reh’g, No. 05-75638, 2009 WL 2386294 (9th Cir. Aug. 5, 2009), this court held invalid a central provision of a five-year contract between the Bonneville Power Administration ...   MORE>>

Resolute Natural Resources Co. and Resolute Aneth, LLC (collectively “Resolute”) petition for review of certain orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission declining to investigate allegedly anticompetitive conduct by Western Refining Pipeline Co. involving oil pipelines in New Mexico; in...   MORE>>

Although set against the complicated regulatory framework of federal energy law, at the end of the day, this petition for review of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders requires only our straightforward application of the plain terms of a written contract. The question is whether FERC ...   MORE>>

In calculating the permissible return on equity for ISO New England, Inc., a regional organization of transmission owners, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission explicitly hiked the rate in order to induce the ISO and its members to proceed swiftly in the completion of certain key transmission pr...   MORE>>

The Federal Power Act (FPA or Act), 41 Stat. 1063, as amended, 16 U. S. C. §791a et seq., authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) to superintend the sale of electricity in interstate commerce and provides that all wholesale-electricity rates must be“just and reaso...   MORE>>

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) adopted extensive revisions to its financial forms and reporting rules for interstate natural gas pipelines. However, the Commission declined to adopt petitioner’s request for additional and more detailed reporting requirements for ...   MORE>>

Shippers with long-term (twenty year) firm contracts on the Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (“PNGTS”) petition for review of two orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) certifying PNGTS’s capacity. The Shippers’ Group contends FERC’s determination was arbit...   MORE>>

This civil appeal stems from a suit alleging violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq. (2002). The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“the Commission”) brought this suit against Anthony Dizona, a commodities trader on the West Trading Desk of Coral Energy...   MORE>>