The Railroad commission seemed unaware of this form and exemption process. Many natural gas providers had not filed a short form with ERCOT, the grid operator for most of Texas, that would have exempted them from electric outages during emergencies. The natural gas industry blamed electricity suppliers for cutting off power to them when they most needed it power generators blamed the gas industry for failing to supply gas to them. The throughput of dry gas production from Permian Basin processing plants dropped 85% from early February to February 18, and two-thirds of the gas processing plants in the Permian Basin had outages. Apache?Ī great article appears in the March Section Report of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law section report, by Jacqueline Weaver, Professor Emeritus, University of Houston Law Center: “The Railroad Commission’s New Duties to Keep Texans Warm: Winter Storm Uri Forces Change.” Here are some excerpts: What does this have to do with Railroad Commission v. Such an opinion would be an “advisory opinion.” Nebraska could not simply ask the court to declare Biden’s loan forgiveness an unconstitutional exercise of executive power without first showing how the state would be injured by Biden’s action. The concept of standing is important to the separation of powers in our federal and state judicial systems. The Biden administration argued that the states who sued would not suffer any injury because of Biden’s forgiveness of student loans, and therefore do not have standing to sue. To have standing, a plaintiff must have sustained or be threatened with an injury different from or in addition to the general public. Under Article III of the US Constitution, courts can decide only a “case or controversy.” That means the plaintiff must have a stake in the outcome different from the general public. “Standing” is a difficult concept to get your arms around. Lost in much of the coverage was the administration’s challenge to the states’ standing to bring the case. Nebraska, in which several states challenge the President’s authority to forgive student loans. Recently the US Supreme Court heard argument in Biden v.
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