Environmental & Energy
May 18, 2020
Trump wants to secure the ‘bulk power system.’ What does that mean for California?
Trump issued an executive order this month declaring a national emergency over potential foreign threats to the security of the U.S. bulk power system.
Buck Endemann
Partner
K&L Gates
Buck is a member of the firm's environmental and power practice groups. He provides counseling on energy, energy storage, infrastructure and remediation projects.
Stacy Ettinger
Partner
K&L Gates
Stacy focuses her practice on international trade. Stacy advises U.S. and foreign companies operating across a diverse range of sectors including manufacturing, energy (LNG, solar, wind), infrastructure, and maritime, in various geographic regions including Asia and the Arctic.
Steven Hill
Partner
K&L Gates
Steven has over 20 years of experience in a broad array of international trade regulation compliance and enforcement matters, particularly export controls, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), sanctions laws enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), customs and other importation laws, anti-boycott laws, and anti-corruption laws.
On May 1, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency over potential foreign threats to the security of the U.S. bulk power system. Utilities and developers went into the weekend trying to determine how the order could impact their existing and planned energy assets. The following Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (the same law underpinning the 2...
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