As seen in Climate Change Dispatch
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has appeared to put off an information request related to the agency’s communications with White House officials.
The Institute for Energy Research (IER), a Washington, D.C.-based energy policy group, requested copies of all email correspondence between FERC Chairman Richard Glick and the White House beginning in September 2021, in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated March 29, according to documents shared with The Daily Caller News Foundation. [bold, links added]
The IER filed the request after Glick said under oath during a March 3 Senate hearing that he hadn’t consulted with any Biden administration higher-ups about implementing policies blocking domestic natural gas pipeline development.
“Absolutely not,” Glick — who President Joe Biden nominated to lead the commission in early 2021 — said in response to a question from Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy about potential communications with “anyone higher up in the administration” regarding FERC’s recent pipeline policy proposal.
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Read the full article here, at Climate Change Dispatch.
Read documents uncovered by IER’s FOIA lawsuits against FERC here.
