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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 clean energy technologies.
Glick was appointed by former President Donald Trump to the commission in August, 2017. Before that he was general counsel for Democrats on the Senate energy committee, and a policy adviser on electricity and renewable energy. His term does not require Senate confirmation and goes through June, 2022.
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A DIVERGENCE: Big Business and congressional Republicans are reading from different notes over how to approach President
Joe Biden’s aggressive agenda to combat climate change.
In the earliest of days, businesses, including oil companies, are sending signals of moderation and compromise. The Chamber of Commerce and American Petroleum Institute issued statements yesterday supporting Biden’s decision to re-enter the Paris Agreement, a shift of position for both. While many individual companies, such as ExxonMobil, called on former President
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners shot down a number of agenda items proposed by Chair James Danly on Tuesday in what stakeholders called an abnormal meeting.
The meeting marked Danly s last as head of FERC, and led to the rejection of several gas infrastructure projects, the dismissal of a proposal that would have expanded the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in the New York Independent System Operator s (NYISO) territory, and the partial rejection of a request for rehearing clarification on the MOPR expansion in the PJM Interconnection. This meeting is not normal, said Gillian Giannetti, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council s Sustainable FERC Project, in a tweet. You don t put orders on the Sunshine notice that will fail.
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