Sentences with phrase «federal power commission»

«The Federal Power Commission, before it, was a commission in significant disarray.
FERC is an independent regulatory agency within the Department of Energy and is the successor to the Federal Power Commission.
Scenic Hudson was steamrolled in a series of hearings convened by the Federal Power Commission in 1964 and 1965.
Some of the delay owes something to the Federal Power Commission and its desire to build a complete record in light of being taken to the woodshed by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in 1965; we might also point to the nature of the fish issue.
He predicted future of gas turbine for peak power before the Federal Power Commission.
He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds.
When Congress put the Federal Power Commission in charge of all wholesale interstate electricity sales in 1935, Texas opted out and stayed out.

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Clayton, who testified alongside Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said the agencies were coordinating with the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve on the matter, but added that lawmakers may have to clarify and enhance regulatory powers.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, Cambridge Analytica is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
«Because it is such a massive economy and so important, it has the power to create what becomes, in a way, a global standard,» former Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Bill Kovacic told me.
Help Scout is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Palo Alto Software is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with regard to the Privacy Shield Frameworks.
Along the way I will describe some events that are virtually unknown about the televangelists gained power over the Federal Communication Commission — a power that has provided a unique opportunity for fundamentalist religion to effect cultural change during the past forty years.
Hence right - wing conspiratorialism is enfolded in a more sweeping religious vision of armed struggle in the end - time, when the aware and the saved battle with the mysterious hidden «they» who manipulate power — in guises as varied as the FBI, the Federal Reserve, the Trilateral Commission and the Anti-Defamation League.
In a statement of claim filed on Thursday in the Federal Court, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged that in early 2008 Colgate - Palmolive, PZ Cussons Australia and Unilever conspired to coordinate pricing, package sizes and product formulations when introducing ultra-concentrate detergents for popular brands including Cold Power, Radiant and Omo.
The other 8 submissions posted since 21 July were from eBay, Global Shippers» Forum, NSW Taxi Council, Recruitment and Consulting Services Association, Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd, The Industry Group, The Infrastructure Group and the United States Federal Trade Commission (focus on misuse of market power, price signaling, and merger notification and review procedures).
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Limited (Ramsay) for alleged anti-competitive conduct involving misuse of market power and exclusive dealing in the Coffs Harbour region.
We believe boxing should be supervised by a federal boxing commission, with its own investigators and licensing power, and with the right and duty to call in the FBI, Treasury agents and anyone else who can catch the crooks and get rid of them.
Meanwhile, consumer watchdog the US Federal Trade Commission — which has the power to levy large fines — has reportedly opened an investigation into Facebook.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, Cambridge Analytica is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
ALBANY — The owners of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County say talks with state officials to keep the facility open have been «unsuccessful,» and on Wednesday filed a notice with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicating they would close the money - losing plant.
Sections 69 and 110 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended); Section 116 of the Electoral, Act 2010 (as amended) and of all other powers enabled the commission to conduct a referendum for a recall process.
Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has scored a victory in his long - running battle against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety reqCommission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety reqcommission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirements.
At stake is not only an Obama break with the Bush - Cheney «dark side» here and abroad, but enough understanding among Americans that this current president has consistently and insistently maintained that he has the power to indefinitely imprison a terrorism suspect who can not be brought before a military commission or into one of our federal courts because the purported evidence against him or her can't be admitted.
The owners of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County say talks with state officials to keep the facility open have been «unsuccessful,» and they have filed a notice with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicating they would close the money - losing plant.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the sale of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant from Entergy to Exelon.
New documents filed with the Federal Election Commission show Manhattan Democratic Party chairman Keith Wright still $ 202,337.72 in the hole from his unsuccessful campaign to replace retired Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel last year — with cash owed to an array of consultants, staffers and contributors, including GOP power players like former Sen. Al D'Amato and supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis.
Mr. Calone of Stony Brook, is a businessman and Harvard Law School - trained attorney, a former federal prosecutor, former trustee of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and, for seven years, chairman of the Suffolk County Planning Commission.
In the Originating Summons marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 232/2018, the plaintiff 8 issues for determination by the court, including: Having regards to the combined provisions of sections 79,116,118,132,153,160 (1) and 178 of the 1999 constitution as amended, the constitution read together with paragraph 15 (a) of the third schedule to the same constitution, whether the 3rd defendant (Independent National Electoral Commission) is not the only institution or body constitutionally vested with the powers and vires to organized, undertake and supervised elections to the offices of the president, the vice president of the federal republic of Nigeria, the Governor and deputy governor of a state, the membership of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the House of Assembly of each state of the federation, including fixing the sequence and dates of the elections to the said offices?
«If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,» Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.
In 1997 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decided that the small amount of power the Edwards Dam generated did not justify the environmental costs.
Is she saying the Federal Trade Commission has proven itself incapable of regulating the retail sales segment of the automotive industry, and so the power to do so must now be transferred to the CFPB?
The General Attorney occupation covers professional legal positions involved in preparing cases for trial and / or the trial of cases before a court or an administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power; rendering legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations, practices, or other matters falling within the purview of a Federal Government agency (this may include conducting investigations to obtain evidentiary data); preparing interpretative and administrative orders, rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions of governing statutes or other requirements of law; drafting, negotiating, or examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's activities; drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation; editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress, opinions or discussions of a court, commission, or board; drafting and reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.
The meeting of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets on an April day in 1998 brought together Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr. — all Wall Street legends, all opponents to varying degrees of tighter regulation of the financial system that had earned them wealth and power.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Bailey - Boushay House, AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle, WA Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA City of Tacoma, Department of Cultural Resources, WA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Davis Wright Tremaine Attorneys, Seattle, WA Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Hillis Clark Martin and Peterson Attorneys, Seattle, WA Honolulu Museum of Art, Hononlulu, HI Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Neuberger and Berman, New York, NY New York Public Library, New York, NY Pacific First Federal Savings Bank, Seattle, WA Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Portland Art Museum, Gilkey Print Center, Portland, OR SAFECO Corporation, Seattle, WA Saintsbury Winery, Napa, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Arts Commission, Surrogate Hostess, Seattle, WA Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA Washington State University, Pullman, WA Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
The Interior Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are drafting an MOU to detail what power each agency has in approving renewable energy developments in coastal waters.
Energy companies and regional grid operators filed comments in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's grid resilience docket on Wednesday, dividing over the role of the federal agency in securing the nation's power infrastrFederal Energy Regulatory Commission's grid resilience docket on Wednesday, dividing over the role of the federal agency in securing the nation's power infrastrfederal agency in securing the nation's power infrastructure.
The EPA does not oversee federal tax incentives nor wholesale power markets, which are under the purview of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commfederal tax incentives nor wholesale power markets, which are under the purview of the Federal Energy Regulatory CommFederal Energy Regulatory Commission.
-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in the court opinion wrote, «Maryland's regulatory program to encourage development of new in - state energy generation is preempted by the Federal Power Act, which vests in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exclusive jurisdiction over interstate wholesale electricity rates.»
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rightly voted to terminate the rulemaking, instead requesting information from grid operators and the public about how to address the undervaluation of coal and nuclear power generation in electricity markets.
, Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to provide bailouts to power plants that no longer can compete with natural gas and renewable energy in the wholesale power market on the false basis that they will solve a grid resiliency crisis that does not exist.
Editor's note: On January 8, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected the Department of Energy's proposed policy of guaranteeing the profits of coal and nuclear power plants in parts of the US.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to act by January 10, 2018, on the Department of Energy's notice of proposed rulemaking on «grid resiliency pricing,» which directs the commission to impose rules that would prevent early retirement of coal and nuclear - fired power plants in the Eastern UnitCommission is expected to act by January 10, 2018, on the Department of Energy's notice of proposed rulemaking on «grid resiliency pricing,» which directs the commission to impose rules that would prevent early retirement of coal and nuclear - fired power plants in the Eastern Unitcommission to impose rules that would prevent early retirement of coal and nuclear - fired power plants in the Eastern United States.
In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that a program Maryland initiated in 2012 to subsidize power plant construction impermissibly invaded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) authority over interstate power markets.
The appeal argues Massachusetts regulators exceeded their wholesale rate - setting authority, a violation of the Federal Power Act and the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by usurping the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
No evidence exists that New England local gas distribution companies engaged in practices to withhold natural gas pipeline capacity on the Algonquin system to drive up gas or power prices in the region, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff revealed.
Yet, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-- the federal agency responsible for protecting public health and safety from nuclear power mishaps — has been downplaying the risk and failing to ensure that the measures needed to avert disaster are implemented.
Excitement over wave energy's rosy prospects in coastal states like California have led many to deem it this decade's new wind power, though large - scale projects such as this one still face several regulatory hurdles from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
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