Chowlander

Environmental & energy lawyer, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost; GC (Customized Energy Solutions), practitioner, teacher & student: all opinions my own.

[Ari Peskoe @AriPeskoe]

"Depth of experience, independent judgment, and keen legal skills are no longer valued. Dedication to upholding the Constitution and the Rule of Law is irrelevant. Nonpartisanship is disloyalty." - Crisis at DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division - https://t.co/1isZKMZCst

[Ari Peskoe @AriPeskoe]

I wrote about how current FERC proceedings about transmission upgrades are critical for shifting utility incentives and pushing the industry to tackle transmission expansion --
https://t.co/2cmgrPfQRU

[Jeremy Fisher @J_I_Fisher]

16 electric cooperatives are *big* winners today of $7.3 billion from the federal New ERA program to pursue solar, wind, storage, and other low emissions tech.
These coops serve more than 1/5th of rural America and are investing in over $29 billion in clean tech. Remarkable.

[Sean Donahue @seantankerous]

Justice Gorsuch's opinion refers five times to "nitrous oxide" (aka laughing gas) rather than the entirely different chemical compound -- smog-causing "nitrogen oxides" -- actually at issue in the case.

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

@AriPeskoe I've got some good background information/studies on this, which you probably have also. you could just have him go ask First Energy. what happened?

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

@AriPeskoe with respect to results, you could show him those before and after satellite pictures of the Northeast us at night, and explain to him how it shows that pjm did a pretty good job of pulling up the bridge

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

Well look what just arrived!

[Scott Simon @nprscottsimon]

We’re in transit tonight, but want to post this to all our friends who follow us here. See you soon.

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

@nprscottsimon Another Scott Simon driveway moment, where I find my eyes a bit fuller than they were the moment before. Thank you.

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

@AriPeskoe It’s great to know of the Gulf States citation

[Michael Gerrard @MichaelGerrard]

Another positive climate decision today: D.C. Circuit upholds California's ability to set strong emissions standards for automobiles; rejects efforts by fossil fuel industry and red states to strike down EPA's "California waiver". The decision: https://t.co/3KEn0tGB2c

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

There is a lot to digest here, but I think we already knew the broad parameters of what the final rule would look like. As is so often the case these days, one needs to watch what individual states are doing, in addition to the SEC.

[Michael Gerrard @MichaelGerrard]

Here is the full text of today's SEC decision (all 886 pages of it): https://t.co/cADMhf2r6v Here is our analysis of the new California laws that cover Scopes 1, 2 and 3 with no materiality threshold, and will cover about 75% of all big companies: https://t.co/tUhTeYodRD

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

@EnergyLawJeff Exactly.

[Jeff Dennis @EnergyLawJeff]

I didn’t know how much I needed this until I saw it last night.

[Michael Gerrard @MichaelGerrard]

Breaking: California Legislature passes SB253, climate disclosure bill that will require corporations to report Scope 1, 2 & 3 GHG emissions. Goes beyond proposed SEC rule. Vote on companion SB261 expected soon. Our legal analysis of bills' significance: https://t.co/tUhTeYodRD

[Ari Peskoe @AriPeskoe]

DC Circuit kills SEEM, the faux-market concocted by Southern Company, Duke, and other southeastern utilities to consolidate regional control.

https://t.co/plVjOwH0rG

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

Welcome, John. :) https://t.co/6btuoeKjIF

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

Especially proud of my colleagues, on this one. https://t.co/NdBLPprgeA

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

I'm truly looking forward to rejoining my friends and colleagues from the Tashkent State University of Law in Uzbekistan, where I spent a wonderful 6-week stint last full as a Fulbright Specialist.

The prospect more than makes up for the fact that I wil…https://t.co/N0de0dcmHB

[Chowlander @Chowlander]

Today environmental "due diligence" in real estate and M&A is about more than merely getting a 'safe harbor' (such as it is) from CERCLA and some state's liability provisions by conducting a Phase I. What do financiers and insurers, and other stakeholder…https://t.co/d4dKlb4S0F