Glick Renomination, Policies Become Converging Controversies

摘要

Some key decisions about federal pipeline regulation are coming to a head as the comment period for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) two draft policy statements closed and the Senate decides whether to renew Richard Glick's chairmanship at FERC. President Joe Biden announced May 20 that he wants to reappoint Glick, who has led agency efforts to adopt the two draft statements that, for the most part, are strongly opposed by interstate pipeline companies as exceeding current federal law.