Niina covers energy law, including litigation over pipelines, eminent domain, oil and gas leasing and federal regulations. Niina first joined E&E in June 2014. She started covering climate issues in agriculture, oceans, and ecology at Climatewire, before transitioning to cover EPA climate policy under the Obama and Trump administrations. Most recently, Niina has covered federal agencies and federal regulations for Greenwire.
The Trump administration is joining NextEra Energy Inc. in urging a federal court to reconsider a case on a 2019 Texas law giving already established utilities priority in constructing transmission lines.
A railway company this week asked a federal court to rehear its plea to block an American Indian tribe's challenge to crude oil shipments close to a reservation in Washington state.
Environmental groups and local residents are calling on the courts to stop three liquefied natural gas export terminals in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, highlighting the importance of stopping the projects amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
As a Canadian oil firm prepares to build its embattled Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S. border, legal experts say the company could use the project's construction status to protect it against an onslaught of ongoing litigation.
The Bureau of Land Management is dropping its appeal of a temporary court order blocking the Trump administration's greater sage grouse plan.