Three U.S. natural gas pipeline projects totaling about $1.34 billion, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, gained agency approval on June 1 but without support from two commissioners who claim FERC should have required developers to include supplemental environmental impact statements to examine how the lines’ greenhouse gas emissions will affect climate change.
Richard Glick, named FERC chairman by President Joe Biden and Commissioner Allison Clements, a Democrat appointed at the end of the Trump admnistration, said in formal dissents that the National Environmental Policy Act requires an EIS unless the agency can determine that the projects either will not cause any significant adverse impacts or that these will be mitigated.