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.
A watershed court ruling yesterday cleared a long-standing obstacle to timely legal challenges of projects approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. How will it change landowner and agency fights?
Federal energy regulators are no longer free to indefinitely stall challenges to the projects they approve, a prominent appeals court ruled today in a victory for landowners.
The Supreme Court yesterday asked the Trump administration to weigh in on a battle over companies' ability to seize state lands to build natural gas pipelines.
A court-ordered block on a major pipeline permitting program is the natural consequence of the federal government's own failures and should not be reversed, conservation groups told the Supreme Court yesterday.
A federal judge has cleared the way for Alaska Native corporations to get emergency federal coronavirus aid designated for Native American tribes after an urgent battle to bar the private businesses from accessing the funds.