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Niskanen Center’s Legal Department uses administrative advocacy, open records work, statutory drafting and review, and strategic litigation to help drive meaningful policy change across Niskanen’s portfolio. We aim to strengthen legal frameworks that promote market vitality and government accountability, with a focus on perverse economic incentives and limiting regulatory capture. Toward that goal, our work seeks to advance competitive energy markets and modern transmission infrastructure; protect functional and lawful immigration pathways; expand health care affordability and housing supply; improve the administration of social insurance programs; and to support institutional renewal through transparency and oversight.
Niskanen Center files amicus brief in federal suit over DOE's intervention in Midwest electricity markets
Niskanen comments on Justice Department's Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force
Proposing a balanced approach to delegation of legislative power
Niskanen Center supports transmission competition to lower costs and strengthen U.S. competitiveness
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Niskanen Center files amicus brief in federal suit over DOE's intervention in Midwest electricity markets
Niskanen comments on Justice Department's Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force
Proposing a balanced approach to delegation of legislative power
Niskanen Center supports transmission competition to lower costs and strengthen U.S. competitiveness
Defending Plyler v. Doe's legacy in 2025
Transource Pennsylvania v DeFrank: The new frontier of transmission line challenges
Powering prosperity: how clean energy drives economic growth across America
Beyond NEPA: Understanding the complexities of slow infrastructure buildout
Win for the Public Interest—DC Circuit Overturns FERC's Flawed Gas Expansion Approval
FERC's grid expansion rule: A pragmatic approach to transmission planning
DOE stepping up with CITAP
A closer look at the role of litigation and opposition in transmission projects undergoing federal permitting
Coalition letter: FERC should rethink its proposed conditional ROFR in its transmission rulemaking
Comment: Department of Energy's (DOE) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Procedures
FERC's approval of the REAE project: A threat to consumers, states, and urgently needed movement towards a modern, clean grid.
Niskanen Center urges affirmance on Florida court's dismissal of controversial "voter fraud" prosecution
Press Release: Niskanen files joint brief challenging FERC's approval of REAE
Amicus brief: National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association v. Black
If FERC approves yet another pipeline that no one needs, it's bad for everyone.
