Leading his final Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meeting on Dec. 15, Chairman Richard Glick now prepares to leave the agency as his term expires and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chief Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) refuses to hold a hearing by year-end to confirm his renomination by the White House.
Glick’s departure leaves the near-term agenda of the regulator of U.S. pipelines, natural gas facilities and more recently, transmission infrastructure, with some uncertainties. A former backwater, FERC has been in the spotlight of late as its handling of U.S. projects and policies drew attention in the developing energy transition and environmental movement, and pressure mounted for it to do more—or much less.