The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) continues to dispatch environmental objections to pipeline projects. Even Chairman Richard Glick, who had originally made reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions his guiding light, is turning a deaf ear. Facing the end of his term and undoubtedly worried about casting votes viewed as anti-pipeline, which might produce opposition to his Senate renomination, Glick and another Democratic commissioner, Allison Clements, voted with the three other commissioners to approve a 24-mile(39-km) Texas Gas pipeline by a vote of 5-0 on Oct. 20, despite a number of environmental objections from the Sierra Club and a group called Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana (CAC).
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