The impacts of breaching the Lower Snake River hydro dams are on the agenda of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Washington State Department of Ecology. The agencies held two public meetings June 25 and 27 under the rubric of the “Lower Snake River Water Supply Replacement Study.” The meetings are part of a… More Hydro you like this? A dam roundup

It didn’t take long. On Tuesday (July 2), the U.S. Supreme Court implemented its overturning of Chevron deference late last week by granting a petition for review of a D.C. Appeals Court decision – Edison Electric Institute et al. v. FERC 22-1246 – rejecting the court’s decision in favor of the regulators and sending the… More Chevron rejection bites FERC first

The U.S. Supreme Court last week by the now conventional 6-3, conservative v. liberal, margin tossed out the 40-year-old precedent on how courts should review disputes in cases before it involving interpretations of ambiguous technical laws Congress has passed. The latest reversal of precedent – which this court often honors more in the breach than… More Commentary: SCOTUS shows Chevron no deference