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Energy Law

Feb. 3, 2011

Feds Must Redo Power Transmission Plans

A massive federal plan to amplify the nation's electric grid and avoid future power brownouts and blackouts is fatally flawed and must be vacated and redone, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday.


By John Roemer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A massive federal plan to amplify the nation's electric grid and avoid future power brownouts and blackouts is fatally flawed and must be vacated and redone, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday.


The panel voted 2-1 against proposed "national interest electric transmission corridors" across Southern California and Arizona and through eight Mid-Atlantic states and the Di...

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