Our Climate, Energy, & Air Update is intended as a general summary of major policy developments that we judge to be of interest to a broad range of our clients and friends.  

This month's edition features discussion on the following:  

• The D.C. Circuit invalidates the cellulosic biofuel volume requirements for the 2012 Renewable Fuel Standard and rejects requests for rehearing its decision on the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
• The Department of the Interior is reconsidering its regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands
• EPA will reconsider portions of its emission standards for gas wells and gas storage vessels
• President Obama promises action on climate change in his inaugural address
• FERC seeks to ease small generator interconnection
• A bipartisan group of Senators sends a letter to the President urging approval of the Keystone XL pipeline
• A California court rejected a challenge to the offset protocols in the state’s cap-and-trade regulations.