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Home » FERC Vacancies Stalling Energy Project Approvals
Final approval of hundreds of interstate pipelines, transmission lines and liquefied-natural-gas projects will be delayed for months because the Trump administration has changed leadership at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. That move leaves FERC one short of the three-member quorum needed to vote on energy projects.
President Donald Trump on Jan. 26 elevated FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur, a Democrat and former electricity industry executive, to acting chairman. The same day, Chairman Norman Bay announced that he would step down from the commission on Feb. 3.