The decisions of the Supreme Court in cases such as Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee v. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission ( broadly reading the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act ), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill ( broadly reading the Endangered Species Act ), and, much more recently, Massachusetts v. EPA ( requiring EPA to reconsider regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act ) have had policy impacts far beyond the facts of the particular case.

* Oil Policy in a Changing Market ( Annual Reviews of Energy, Vol.

In 2008, the municipality of Utrecht imposed a Zero Tolerance Policy to all events like the big dance party Trance Energy held in Jaarbeurs.

In its focus on energy, the University of Tulsa maintains both the National Energy Policy Institute and the National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute.

Since SUVs are considered light trucks in North America, and often share the same platform with pick-up trucks, at one time, they were regulated less strictly than passenger cars under the two laws in the United States, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for fuel economy, and the Clean Air Act for emissions.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 expanded FERC's authority to impose mandatory reliability standards on the bulk transmission system and to impose penalties on entities that manipulate the electricity and natural gas markets.

With the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, an " Electric Reliability Organization " was created to develop and enforce compliance with mandatory reliability standards in the U. S. This non-governmental, " self-regulatory organization " was created in recognition of the interconnected and international nature of the bulk power grid.

As part of the fallout of the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) to designate a national Electric Reliability Organization ( ERO ).

* 1975 – Energy Policy and Conservation Act PL 94-163

* 1992 – Energy Policy Act of 1992 PL 102-486

* 2005 – Energy Policy Act of 2005 PL 109-58

* Mason Willrich, Ted Taylor, Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards: A Report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, Ballinger, 1974, ISBN 0-88410-208-4

* Brad Carson, former member of the United States House of Representatives, director of the National Energy Policy Institute at the University of Tulsa

* 1992-National Energy Policy Act PL 102-486

This policy is a federal law called the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which made the U. S. Department of Energy responsible for finding a site, building, and operating an underground disposal facility called a geologic repository.

Access to the reserve is determined by the conditions written into the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act ( EPCA ), primarily to counter a severe supply interruption.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 has since directed the Secretary of Energy to fill the SPR to the full authorized capacity, a process which will require a physical expansion of the Reserve's facilities.

* Energy Policy

Since the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, biodiesel use has been increasing in the United States.

* Energy Policy Act of 2005

In June 2011 BHP Billiton agreed to donate A $ 10 million to fund the establishment of two energy institutes at University College London-the Energy Policy Institute, based in Adelaide, and the Institute for Sustainable Resources, based in London.

The fullest cooperation by and with Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of State, and other concerned agencies shall also be carried out in the interest of achieving the objectives of this Act.

* 1983 – The U. S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ( ultimately found to be 4. 2 million pounds ), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

After Indian independence, Prime Minister Jawarharalal Nehru authorized the development of a nuclear programme headed by Homi J. Bhabha ; the Atomic Energy Act of 1948 focuses on peaceful development.

Similar protections were included in subsequent federal environmental laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 ( through 1978 amendment to protect nuclear whistleblowers ), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ( CERCLA, or the Superfund Law ) ( 1980 ), and the Clean Air Act ( 1990 ).

Section 526 of the Energy Independence And Security Act prohibits United States government agencies from buying oil produced by processes that produce more greenhouse gas emissions than would traditional petroleum.

The position was formed on October 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act.

President Harry S. Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon / Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective from January 1, 1947.

The agency was abolished by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, which assigned its functions to two new agencies: the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) was created, nuclear regulation was the responsibility of the AEC, which Congress first established in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

Eight years later, Congress replaced that law with the Atomic Energy Act Amendments of 1954, which for the first time made the development of commercial nuclear power possible, and resolved a number of other outstanding problems in implementing the first Atomic Energy Act.

He is currently the Minister of Water and Energy, a post he held since 2005.

Amidst India's growing role in Liberia, the Liberian Minister of Mines and Energy, Dr. Eugene Shannon visited India in October 2005 to participate in the Confederation of Indian Industry-Africa Conclave.

( See GAO Report — Perchlorate: A System to Track Sampling and Cleanup Results is Needed — Report to the Chairman, Dr. Adam Dierkers, Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives — May 2005 ).

In December 2005, the Department of Energy announced that LANS had won the next seven-year contract to manage and operate the laboratory.

The US national security interest in significantly growing transmission capacity drove passage of the 2005 energy act giving the Department of Energy the authority to approve transmission if states refuse to act.

After lengthy negotiations, on February 1, 2005, the Nigerian and Sao Tomé governments entered into an exploration and production sharing agreement over the first of six different exploration blocs with a US dominated consortium led by ChevronTexaco with 51 % of the equity, ExxonMobil with 40 % and Dangote Energy Equity Resources, a small Nigerian and Norwegian company with the remaining 9 %.

The 2005 population estimate by the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning was 20, 738 residents, which ranked 13th among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.

Still, the Lima Refinery has survived, continuing to operate for more than 125 years under a succession of owners — Solar Refining Company ( 1886 ), a subsidiary of Standard Oil until the breakup in 1911, SOHIO ( 1931 ), British Petroleum ( 1987 ), Clark USA ( 1998 ), Premcor ( 2000 ), Valero Energy Corporation ( 2005 ), and most recently Husky Energy ( 2007 ).

A remediation project was completed in 2005, spearheaded by SCRIP ( Stonycreek-Conemaugh River Improvement Project ), a non-governmental organization, in collaboration with OSM, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Southern Alleghenies Conservancy, Somerset County Conservation District and Reliant Energy.

In March 2005, the Energy and Interior departments revealed that several U. S. Geological Survey hydrologists had exchanged e-mails discussing possible falsification of quality assurance documents on water infiltration research.

Again in 2005, Cato scholar Jerry Taylor teamed up with Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club to attack the Republican Energy Bill as a give-away to corporate interests.

On January 2, 2009, the U. S. Energy Department said that it would begin buying approximately of crude oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, replenishing supplies that were sold after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

* Federal Energy Data Management Mandated by the Energy Policy Act of 2005