Energy (generally)
Deals in the Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, and How Law Can Help
Author
Christiana Ochoa, Kacey Cook, and Hanna Weil
Author Bios (long)

Christiana Ochoa is Dean and Herman B Wells Class of 1950 Endowed Professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Kacey Cook is the Constance and Terry Marbach Conservation Attorney at the Conservation Law Center. Hanna Weil is a 2024 J.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Date
August 2024
Volume
54
Issue
8
Page
10654
Type
Articles
Summary

This Article offers proposals for better engagements, relationships, and deals with local communities contemplating wind farms. Because the rapid expansion of wind energy to date has exhausted the first-mover rural communities, the promise of wind energy depends on reluctant rural communities that may require the legal, relational, and policy innovations proposed herein if they are to grant their consent to future wind farms and participate in the renewable energy transformation. The proposals are the result of empirical research exploring how occupants of rural spaces have reacted to wind developer’s strategies in their communities and how local communities have employed legal mechanisms to welcome—or, more often, reject— wind farms in their home counties.

H.J. Res. 183
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Palmer
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Al.
Issue
9
Volume
54
Update Issue
20
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H4625

would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of DOE relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Circulator Pumps.”

H.J. Res. 184
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Palmer
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Al.
Issue
9
Volume
54
Update Issue
20
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H4625

would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by DOE relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Water Heaters.”

S. 4719
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Sponsor Name
Cortez Masto
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Nev.
Issue
9
Volume
54
Update Issue
20
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. S4553

would provide the Secretary of Energy with the authority to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to improve the security and resilience of defense critical electric infrastructure and reduce the vulnerability of critical defense facilities to the disruption of the supply of energy to those facilities.

H.J. Res. 173
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Palmer
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Al.
Issue
9
Volume
54
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H4451

would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by DOE relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Water Heaters.”

H.J. Res. 176
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Palmer
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Al.
Issue
9
Volume
54
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H4451

would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by DOE relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Miscellaneous Refrigeration Products.”

H.J. Res. 180
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Energy and Commerce and Transportation and Infrastructure
Sponsor Name
Palmer
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Al.
Issue
9
Volume
54
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H4451

would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by DOE relating to “Clean Energy for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings.”

H.R. 8968
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Lesko
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Ariz.
Issue
9
Volume
54
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H4527

would amend the Federal Power Act to require annual reports on generation and load capacity by regional transmission organizations and independent system operators, and establish reliability markets.

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