Court won’t rehear FERC GHG case, but new request filed

July 22, 2019
An appellate court is refusing to reconsider its decision to dismiss a challenge to a gas pipeline approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over its failure to fully consider the project’s climate effects, though the court is facing a similar request in a related case over a different FERC pipeline approval. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied rehearing en banc in a July 22 order in Otsego 2000 v. FERC ,...


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