Jeremy C. Marwell

(U.S.) — Briefed and argued a case in the Supreme Court of the United States involving federal sentencing enhancement

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC decision declining to halt construction of an interconnection between an LNG facility and a group of temporary electricity generation units used to bolster local electric grid in Puerto Rico

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC order authorizing construction and operation of one of the largest-capacity border-crossing pipelines in the United States

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC decision to grant extension of time for construction of natural gas pipeline

(S.D. Tex.); (FERC) – Argued motions hearing successfully securing judicial stay of FERC administrative enforcement action on the ground that it violated the Seventh Amendment; following stay, FERC settled the underlying in-house proceeding on favorable terms

(U.S.); (D.C. Cir.); (FERC) – Briefed and argued appeal in the D.C. Circuit for electric-utility trade association and individual electric utility in challenge to FERC order governing the standard for determining when a solar project constitutes a “qualifying facility” under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (“PURPA”)

(Ct. App. – Va.) – Successfully briefed and argued appeal for local natural gas distribution company on appeal of a favorable trial court ruling striking down an adverse county zoning board decision that would have impacted company’s ability to maintain its distribution system; successfully opposed a stay pending review of the trial court’s ruling

(5th Cir.); (S.D. Tex.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permitting against NEPA and Clean Water Act challenges brought in federal court to stop dock expansion at an existing marine terminal; favorable summary-judgment order was unanimously affirmed in published, precedent-setting opinion from the Fifth Circuit

(9th Cir.) – Successfully briefed and argued Ninth Circuit appeal on behalf of electric-utility trade association defending FERC rulemaking that overhauled PURPA implementing regulations governing integration and incentives for renewable energy projects

(D.D.C.); (D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending dismissal of a lawsuit brought by landowners pursuing non-delegation and other challenges to the Natural Gas Act’s pipeline certification process and eminent domain authority

(U.S.); (4th Cir.); (D.C. Cir.) – Successfully helped infrastructure client draft legislation ratifying and ending litigation over environmental and other permits for multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project; helped successfully defend legislation against subsequent constitutional challenges by project opponents

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC authorizations for greenfield natural gas pipeline, in case presenting important questions regarding FERC’s calculation of initial pipeline recourse rates, and FERC’s obligations under the National Environmental Policy Act to analyze and consider mitigation for potential environmental effects of pipeline construction, including sedimentation

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC’s decisions to extend the deadline for completing construction of a compressor station for a natural gas infrastructure project and authorizing the station to be placed into service

(5th Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending Clean Water Act permit for LNG export facility and associated pipeline; environmental groups had argued that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not approve the least environmentally damaging practicable alternative and that the Corps improperly evaluated pipeline construction impacts and mitigation efforts

(5th Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending against challenge to a biological opinion issued by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in connection with the development of a proposed LNG terminal and feeder pipeline

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC approval of $1 billion interstate natural gas pipeline project; case involves claims by elected state officials and affected residents that FERC failed to consider safety risks for residential neighborhoods, and wrongly rejected alternatives to the project

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC authorization for natural gas pipeline project, including conversion of dual use (oil/gas) to natural gas

(1st Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending air permit for natural gas pipeline compressor station against numerous Clean Air Act and state-law challenges; successfully argued against vacatur of permit on one issue where Court concluded additional analysis by state agency was needed, and then successfully defended agency’s reaffirmance of air permit in subsequent post-remand appeal

(D.C. Cir.) – Briefed and argued appeal successfully defending FERC approval of natural gas border-crossing pipeline facility; environmental group had challenged the scope of FERC’s jurisdiction under Sections 3 and 7 of the Natural Gas Act over related intrastate pipeline