NGOs Plan Push To Expand Scope Of FERC’s Gas Project GHG Reviews

Environmentalists and other non-governmental groups are poised to push federal energy regulators to broadly review the greenhouse gas (GHG) and other impacts associated with natural gas infrastructure projects as officials begin reconsidering their years-old policy for approving such projects. In the past, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has lacked a commitment to conducting proper climate change reviews of natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, says Gillian Giannetti, an attorney with the Sustainable FERC Project housed in...