FERC Scraps Prior Precedent Regarding Gas Projects’ GHG ‘Significance’

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is scrapping a years-old precedent that environmentalists have been attempting to use to force the agency to determine if greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas infrastructure projects are “significant,” underscoring the agency’s reluctance to make such findings. The decision comes in the context of an order pausing FERC’s approval for several months of the major Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project, as officials conduct supplemental National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)...