It's almost fall.Leaves will soon turn color, and temperatures will start to drop. Not yet, but you can almost feel the change in the air. Change is also occurring at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The good news is that FERC once again has a quorum and can resume its regulatory oversight of the electric, natural gas and oil pipeline industries.The bad news is that FERC has a backlog of cases to address. One in particular, involving Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC, will expose tension between the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Clean Water Act (CWA), between the FERC and a state environmental agency, and between environmental activists and electric reliability.
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