Group Raises New NEPA GHG Guide In Comments Opposing Gas Pipeline

Advocates opposing a proposed Mid-Atlantic natural gas pipeline are urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to significantly bolster the project's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review in part due to new White House greenhouse gas guidance -- in what appear to be the first substantive comments to the commission since the guide was finalized last month. FERC has been among the agencies most resistant to broadly considering the GHG impacts of its gas infrastructure decisions, and has prevailed in...