New FERC Chair’s Focus: Environmental Justice and Climate Change Impacts
Richard Glick has a long list of priorities for his chairmanship of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He has already outlined many of them , such as reforming energy market policies that restrict state-supported clean energy resources, expanding transmission capacity and unblocking new grid interconnections, and incorporating climate change impacts into the agency’s decision-making process. On Thursday, in his first press conference since being elevated to lead FERC last month by President Joe Biden, Glick brought more clarity to some of FERC’s newest initiatives. Those include creating a senior-level position to address environmental justice impacts of its decisions, including those involving natural gas pipeline projects, to ensure they don’t “unfairly impact historically marginalized communities.” A 2017 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has put pressure on FERC to change its approach to accounting for the indirect greenhouse gas emissions impacts of natural gas pipeline projects under its purview.
New FERC Chair’s Focus: Environmental Justice and Climate Change Impacts
Richard Glick has a long list of priorities for his chairmanship of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He has already outlined many of them , such as reforming energy market policies that restrict state-supported clean energy resources, expanding transmission capacity and unblocking new grid interconnections, and incorporating climate change impacts into the agency’s decision-making process. On Thursday, in his first press conference since being elevated to lead FERC last month by President Joe Biden, Glick brought more clarity to some of FERC’s newest initiatives. Those include creating a senior-level position to address environmental justice impacts of its decisions, including those involving natural gas pipeline projects, to ensure they don’t “unfairly impact historically marginalized communities.” A 2017 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has put pressure on FERC to change its approach to accounting for the indirect greenhouse gas emissions impacts of natural gas pipeline projects under its purview.