FERC Launches New Review Of Natural Gas Project GHG Analysis Policy

February 18, 2021
Federal energy regulators will consider revising their controversial policy for assessing the greenhouse gas impacts of natural gas pipelines, asking for public comments on that topic as well as a series of other hot-button issues including how to mitigate projects’ impacts on climate change and environmental justice communities. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) policy review, agreed to at the commission’s Feb. 18 meeting, tackles the highly controversial issue that environmental and other groups have long wanted FERC to act...


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