To: The United States Senate
Senators: Don't Send Trump's "Humble Regulator" to FERC
Karen Feridun
Trump's FERC nominee James Danly calls his style that of a "humble regulator", but it really means he'd take a hands-off approach to the most important issue of our time - the climate crisis. “That hands-off approach to performing greenhouse gas analysis has been repeatedly criticized by Commissioners Cheryl LaFleur [since retired] and Richard Glick, both Democrats," reported E&E News. Senators, it's up to you to block his approval by speaking out during his hearing and voting NO on his confirmation.
Why is this important?
Trump may hold the record for the number of FERC Commissioners he's been able to appoint within three years. James Danly is his sixth nominee to the 5-member commission. One of his appointees only stayed a year and another passed away shortly after becoming FERC's chairman.
With the exception of the very competent Richard Glick, who Trump appointed to one of the two Democratic seats, his appointees have continued the tradition of rubber-stamping natural gas projects and have ignored even the courts that have told them to consider climate impacts. “And last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit chastised FERC for its ‘decidedly less-than-dogged efforts to obtain the information it says it would need to determine that downstream greenhouse-gas emissions qualify as a reasonably foreseeable indirect effect’ of a project (Energywire, June 5).”
Here we go again.
James Danly's confirmation hearing has been scheduled for November 5th. “Evidence of Danly's [approach] might be found in his leading the commission last year [as FERC General Counsel] to abandon the approach it had employed toward evaluating the effects of downstream greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas projects, using authority found in the National Environmental Policy Act." (E&E News, June 10)
Please sign our petition calling on the Senate to say NO to making Trump's "humble regulator" a FERC Commissioner.
With the exception of the very competent Richard Glick, who Trump appointed to one of the two Democratic seats, his appointees have continued the tradition of rubber-stamping natural gas projects and have ignored even the courts that have told them to consider climate impacts. “And last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit chastised FERC for its ‘decidedly less-than-dogged efforts to obtain the information it says it would need to determine that downstream greenhouse-gas emissions qualify as a reasonably foreseeable indirect effect’ of a project (Energywire, June 5).”
Here we go again.
James Danly's confirmation hearing has been scheduled for November 5th. “Evidence of Danly's [approach] might be found in his leading the commission last year [as FERC General Counsel] to abandon the approach it had employed toward evaluating the effects of downstream greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas projects, using authority found in the National Environmental Policy Act." (E&E News, June 10)
Please sign our petition calling on the Senate to say NO to making Trump's "humble regulator" a FERC Commissioner.