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.
President Trump vowed yesterday that a final rule on implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act would end "mountains of bureacratic red tape," but environmental lawyers say the revisions may have the opposite effect.
President Trump promised yesterday that a newly finalized rulemaking undercutting a bedrock environmental statute would bring an end to "mountains and mountains of bureaucratic red tape" for American infrastructure.
A federal appeals court is upholding a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order promoting the participation of energy storage technologies like batteries on the electric grid.
A Supreme Court ruling yesterday declaring that nearly half of Oklahoma remains Native American reservation land is sparking anger in the oil industry. What does the decision mean for energy development?
The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge's order this spring that tossed out 440 oil and gas leases on greater sage grouse habitat.