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The U.S. Department of Energy’s streamlined rules for companies seeking permission to export U.S. electricity are at odds with the department’s finding that there are “energy emergencies” across the United States that justify keeping power plants from retiring, Public Citizen said Tuesday.
The DOE should reconsider the final rule on power export authorizations it issued on June 22, in part because it prevents people and groups from intervening in export authorization proceedings or protesting them, the consumer watchdog group said in a rehearing request filed July 21.
If the DOE dismisses Public Citizen’s rehearing request, the group will “likely” sue the department to overturn the new rule, Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s energy program, said in an email Wednesday.
