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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: At the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”), President Joseph Biden selected Richard Glick, one of two Democratic commissioners on the five person commission, as Chairman.  The Chair sets FERC’s agenda, so even without a tie-breaker vote or a majority of Democratic Commissioners (the situation until one of the Republican Commissioners departs), Chairman Glick will have significant influence over FER...

Debate Over Natural Gas Pipeline Rehearing Procedures Simmering at FERC Under the direction of new Chairman Richard Glick, FERC is revisiting an order issued last year designed to prevent natural gas pipelines from starting construction with rehearings pending, opening the door to potentially implement additional landowner protections. However, in doing so the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is leaving pipeline developers in the lurch by not providing a timely response to substantive objec...

Friday, January 29, 2021 FERC Proposes Financial Assurance Measures for Hydropower Licensees On January 19, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) inviting comments on whether FERC should require financial assurance measures in hydropower licenses and other authorizations.  Triggered by recent public safety events, the NOI explains that a number of hydropower projects are non-operational or out of compliance with the license and the l...

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The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 15th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 187 billion cubic feet to 3,009 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies just 36 billion cubic feet, or 1.2% higher than the 3,045 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 15th of last year, but still 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 2,811 billion cubic feet of nat...

Biden Tags Glick to Chair Federal Regulator Jan 22, 2021 10:11:pm Summary by: Dale Lunan Biden Tags Glick to Chair Federal Regulator US president Joe Biden named Richard Glick to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) on January 21, replacing James Danly, who had been appointed chair in November 2020 by former president Donald Trump. Glick joined Ferc in November 2017 after serving as general counsel for the Democrats on the Senate energy and natural resources committee. His term...

The Energy 202: Biden administration puts freeze on federal fossil fuel leases and permits Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck The Biden administration is impeding new leases to drill on public lands and waters, jump-starting one of the president’s biggest campaign promises aimed at combating climate change.  Within hours of taking office, Scott de la Vega, President Biden’s acting interior secretary, issued an order preventing staff from producing any new fossil fu...

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3 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden walks past solar panels while touring the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S., June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday named Richard Glick, a Democrat, to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he could eventually lead the panel to consider lowering barriers for emerging cl...