Countering FERC, Environmentalists Cite Need To Find GHG ‘Significance’

Environmentalists are urging a federal appeals court to reject new claims by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that it need not determine if a project’s greenhouse gas emissions are “significant” as part of an environmental review, arguing such findings are “deeply ingrained” in the agency’s review practice. The environmentalists explain their view in a June 24 letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Healthy Gulf, et al. v. FERC , where they...