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Jason Fleischer
Jason Fleischer
Partner — Energy Regulation
E: jfleischer@velaw.com T: +1.202.639.6554
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Partner — Energy Regulation

Jason Fleischer

Jason Fleischer
Washington, D.C.
T: +1.202.639.6554
F: +1.202.879.8984

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, D.C. 20037

E: jfleischer@velaw.com
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Jason Fleischer

Jason’s practice focuses primarily on energy litigation, regulatory, permitting, and transactional matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Commodities Futures Trading Commission, other federal agencies and the federal courts.

Jason advises clients on obtaining permits and authorizations on electric, oil and gas projects subject to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from federal agencies and defending those permits in the federal courts. Jason also represents a wide variety of electric utilities, investment banks, power marketers and natural gas companies and pipelines in agency investigations and enforcement matters including alleged market manipulation, market power, and reliability matters, and transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he assists clients with crisis management, strategic planning, internal corporate investigations and Congressional investigations.

Experience Highlights

  • Represented oil pipeline and parent company in NEPA litigation relating to US Army Corps of Engineer Permits

  • Represented affiliated multi-national energy companies and individuals in defending FERC allegations of natural gas market manipulation

  • Represented international oil pipeline in litigation before the FERC over contracted service rates covering multi-year period

  • Represented multiple electric utilities in FERC and NERC regulatory compliance audits

  • Represented two investment banks and several electric utilities, energy marketers, natural gas pipelines and private individuals in FERC and CFTC enforcement investigations relating to alleged market manipulation

  • Represented oil pipeline and parent company in crisis management and sprawling federal and state litigation related to challenges to multiple federal and state permits

  • Represented companies involved in the San Diego and Texas Power Outage reliability investigations and several other companies in FERC-initiated reliability audits and investigations

  • Represented two natural gas pipelines in FERC-initiated FPA Section 205 rate proceedings

  • Represented companies in Congressional investigations relating to the practice of hydraulic fracturing (i.e. “fracking”)

  • Represented several electric utilities and natural gas pipeline companies in mergers and acquisitions and development projects

  • Represented several financial investment companies in applications for blanket FPA Section 203 authorizations and related compliance matters

Credentials

  • American University Washington College of Law, J.D. magna cum laude, 2006 (American University Law Review, Member; Order of the Coif, Member)
  • University of Maryland, B.A. cum laude, 1999 (Phi Beta Kappa)
  • Selected to the Washington D.C. Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2015−2017
  • Legal 500 U.S., Energy Litigation: Oil & Gas, 2023; Energy Regulation: Oil & Gas, 2023 and 2024
  • Washington College of Law Alumni – American University
  • UMBC Alumni Network
  • District of Columbia
  • New York
  • “New EPA Greenhouse Gas Rule Takes Aim at Fossil-Fueled Power Plants,” The Journal of Federal Agency Action, Volume 2, No. 5, September–October 2024 (co-author)
  • “The EPA and the Clean Power Plan: A Paradigm Shift in Energy Regulation Away From Energy Regulators,” Energy Law Journal, November 16, 2015 (author)
  • “2014 FERC Enforcement Year In Review,” Law360, December 22, 2014 (author)
  • “The FERC Enforcement Process: Time for Structural Due Process and Substantive Reforms,” Energy Law Journal, May 13, 2014 (author)

News & Insights

Event Recap
2024 Energy Regulatory Conference
Outlook on the New AdministrationRegulatory Roundup
November 14, 2024
Insight
FERC Initiates Supplemental Rulemaking Seeking Comments on Oil Pipeline Index Levels Following Pipeline Victory at D.C. Circuit in LEPA v. FERC

V&E Energy Update

Regulatory Roundup
October 18, 2024
Rankings & Awards
The Legal 500 US 2024 (Legalease Ltd.) Recognizes Vinson & Elkins in 44 Practice Categories, 131 Lawyers Recommended
June 12, 2024
Insight
The New NEPA Regulations: What You Need to Know About the “Significant Effects” the Final Phase 2 Rule Could Have on Permitting and Infrastructure Project

V&E Environmental Update

EnvironmentalEnergy Transition
May 30, 2024