Morgan Meguire News

Sens. Richard Durbin (D-IL), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are seeking support from their Senate colleagues on a letter to Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resource (ENR) Committee, Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Ranking Member Pete Domenici (R-NM) in support of a strong federal renewable portfolio standard.  ...

This week, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) called on Subcommittee Chairman Richard Neal to hold hearings on "energy incentive proposals from Members and the public."  The hearings will be part of the Committee's development of energy legislation, which Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has ...

On Tuesday, February 20, Lori Pickford and Karen Price of Morgan Meguire met with House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Staff Director Melissa Mueller and Rep. Richard Neal's (D-MA) energy Legislative Assistant Dan Houton to discuss the Clean Renewable Energy Bond (CREB) program.  In the 110th Congress, Rep. Neal ...

On February 15, FERC issued a final order modifying the Open-Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) that, among other things, advances new policy to create a transparent and open regional planning process.  While the Commission agreed that there are benefits to joint ownership of transmission facilities, particularly large, backbone facilities, ...

Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), and thirty-six other Senators  joined together in sending a letter to President George W. Bush requesting the immediate release of $200 million in emergency funds for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Programs (LIHEAP).  They cited that the "extended artic cold wave which has ...

Heather Zichal of Sen. John Kerry's office was recently promoted from Legislative Assistant to Legislative Director.  Her replacement as energy Legislative Assistant has not yet been named. As mentioned above, Rep. Neal has hired Melissa Mueller as his Subcommittee Staff Director.  She previously worked tax issues in his personal ...

On February 9, consumer-owned and investor-owned utilities joined by key energy efficiency advocacy groups, sent a letter to DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman jointly recommending new national standards for energy efficient distribution transformers. The organizations signing the letter included: APPA, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the Natural ...