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Message From: Sent: To: Subject: Troutman Sanders LLP [Communications@troutman.com] 1/29/2018 8:47:00 PM Wehrum, Bill [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=33d96ae800cf43a3911d94a7130b6c41-Wehrum, Wil] Washington Energy Report January 29, 2018 Washington Energy Report FEFIC Approves PennEast Pipeline Project Despite Meed and Environmental impact Protests By Russell Rooistra & Jasmine Hites on January 29, 2018 POSTED IN NAIURAL.GAS On January 19, 2018, FERC approved PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC's ("PennEast") proposal to construct its 116-mile pipeline project from Pennsylvania to New Jersey ("Project"). FERC approved the Project despite protesters challenging the Project's need given that affiliated shippers subscribed to most of the Project's capacity, as well as FERC's limited environmental impact analysis after PennEast could not complete certain surveys along the Project's route due to landowners denying PennEast access to their property. Read more The Washington Energy Report is a weekly publication written by the Troutman Sanders Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") practice that monitors and reports on significant developments in FERC and energy-related matters around the country. Quick Links W ashinglnjjins^ JiS.y.tfD.iD. Sanders Contacts 202. 274.2926 D,C, Circi -fects Challenge to FEFIC Orders o h ISO- "city Prieini ?s ArniejColby 202. 274.2922 Email M [Jeanne Crowley 202. 274.2814 E.mail Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tiers 8&9 ED 002061 00183064-00001 By JariOi 29, 2018" & Thomas PeVita on January POSTED IN MARKET POL On January 19, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (the "D.C. Circuit") rejected the New England Power Generators Association's (the "Association") challenge to two FERC orders on ISO New England Inc.'s ("ISO-NE") scarcity pricing mechanisms in ISO-NE's real-time and capacity markets. The D.C. Circuit rejected the challenge both on procedural grounds and on the merits. Read more Mew York ZEC Challenges Move Forward at the Sta eel By Adriaen Thompson & Christopher Zeotz on January 29, 2018 POSTED IN MARKET POLICY On January 22, 2018, a New York state trial court largely rejected motions to dismiss various challenges to the state's zero emission credit ("ZEC") program established in 2016 by the New York Public Service Commission ("NYPSC"). The ZEC program, which is also being challenged in federal court, provides subsidies to financially struggling in-state nuclear energy generators. Read more 202. 274.2870 202. 274.2886 202. 662.2181 404. 885.3683 ClitfordiW ora 202. 274.2966 Email Wra Skidmore 503. 290.2310 Email I SUBSCRIBE FEFIC Staff Directs Rover Pipeline to Cea : tivity at the Tuscarawas River Site By Russell Rooistra & Jasmine Hites on January 29. 208 POSTED IN NATURA On January 24, 2018, FERC staff directed Rover Pipeline LLC ("Rover") to stop horizontal directional drilling ("HDD") activity--which involves using a drill to bore Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tiers 8&9 ED 002061 00183064-00002 horizontally underground and drilling mud to remove drill cuttings and maintain the bore for a newly constructed pipeline to "cross" beneath rivers and other areas--at the Tuscarawas River site due to inadvertent losses of drilling mud. f * In 0 Troutman Sanders LLP. Advertising material. These materials are to Inform you of developments that may affect your business and are not to be considered legal advice, nor do they create a lawyer-client relationship, information on previous case results does not guarantee a similar future result. Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tiers 8&9 ED 002061 00183064-00003