April 2021, Vol. 248, No. 4
Government
FERC Kicks Off Broad Pipeline Approval Re-Examination
By Stephen Barlas, Contributing Editor, Washington D.C. Barlas Clouds are gathering over future pipeline construction as the Biden administration’s environmental focus begins to seep into Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiatives. The commission, with Democratic Chairman Richard Glick doing the steering, took two significant steps in February, which would end up complicating future approval of pipeline building: 1) a notice of inquiry (NOI) reopening a dormant regulatory docket from three years ago, asking whether FERC should revise its 1999 policy statement regarding the certification of new interstate natural gas pipeline facilit

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