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The climate concessions FERC’s majority might make

Episode Summary

FERC’s Democratic commissioners may compromise with their Republican counterparts in order to reach a consensus on the agency’s two controversial pipeline policy statements. But, that compromise could have a major cost: the agency’s ability to reject a pipeline project if its level of greenhouse gas emissions — and its impact on climate change — is considered too high. POLITICO’s Catherine Morehouse explains.

Episode Notes

FERC’s Democratic commissioners may compromise with their Republican counterparts in order to reach a consensus on the agency’s two controversial pipeline policy statements. But, that compromise could have a major cost: the agency’s ability to reject a pipeline project if its level of greenhouse gas emissions — and its impact on climate change — is considered too high. POLITICO’s Catherine Morehouse explains.

 

Josh Siegel is an energy reporter for POLITICO. 

Catherine Morehouse is an energy reporter for POLITICO. 

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

Carlos Prieto is an audio producer for POLITICO. 

Raghu Manavalan is a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.