FERC Backs Developer’s Push To Overturn D.C. Circuit Pipeline Vacatur

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is supporting a developer’s push for the full D.C. Circuit to rehear a three-judge panel decision vacating the agency’s approval of a gas pipeline in New Jersey, arguing the court wrongly held that it should have determined if the project’s greenhouse gases are “significant.” The panel’s July 30 decision in New Jersey Conservation Foundation, et al. v. FERC, et al . is one of several cases that explore the agency’s mandates under the National...