BOSTON Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey today led a coalition of nine attorneys general in calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to revise its policy for certifying new natural gas pipelines to consider potential disproportionate impacts on overburdened environmental justice communities and to better scrutinize whether projects are needed in light of national and state greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
In the comments filed with FERC Wednesday, the coalition argues that FERC must do more to satisfy its legal duties to ensure that new pipeline projects are in the public interest. The coalition calls on FERC to consider the significance of a project’s greenhouse gas emissions and to improve its engagement with environmental justice communities during the pipeline review process.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after the House Committee on Natural Resources unanimously approved H.R. 2641, the Pacific Northwest Pumped Storage Hydropower Development Act of 2021: “This is a huge step forward in enhancing Central Washington’s hydropower capabilities, creating jobs, and encouraging investment in clean
America's energy future will be shaped to a significant degree by two new tensions that are rapidly converging. A massive number of electric vehicles (EVs) will soon be populating our roads, but our nation's electric grid is woefully unprepared to supply the additional capacity required to fuel these vehicles. Even this summer, the entire Western electricity grid is facing the
Mark Gillispie May 27, 2021 - 3:22 PM
CLEVELAND (AP) â A FirstEnergy senior vice president was fired Thursday for her âinactionâ regarding a 2015 amendment to a âpurportedâ consulting contract with someone who was later appointed as Ohio s top utility regulator, the company announced in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Eileen Mikkelsen s dismissal makes her the sixth high-ranking FirstEnergy executive fired since the U.S. Department of Justice alleged last July that the company had secretly funded a $60 million bribery scheme aimed at winning legislative approval of a bailout of two nuclear power plants operated at the time by a wholly-owned FirstEnergy subsidiary.