May 2022, Vol. 249, No. 5

Government

Russia Concerns Loom Over FERC and EPA Anti-Pipeline Efforts

By Stephen Barlas, Contributing Editor, Washington, D.C. Pipeline companies had already been pressuring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine to rethink its two new policy statements on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and pipeline certificates. But any future FERC reckoning with new supply-need realities in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could be more imagined than real.  On March 24, the day before Biden made his European liquefied natural gas (LNG) commitment, the Commission announced that it was reclassifying its two February policy statements as “drafts” and taking public comments on them.   FERC ann

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