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President Trump has announced his intent to nominate Republican Bernard McNamee to fill the vacant fifth seat at FERC, but how the confirmation process will unfold for the current executive director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Policy is unclear.

The New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel (NJDRC), the state’s utility consumer advocate, took its opposition to the PennEast Pipeline Project to federal court this week, challenging FERC’s certificate in a petition submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

In a split decision Friday, FERC issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Spire STL Pipeline LLC (Spire) for its proposed 65-mile, 400,000 Dth/d natural gas transmission project to tap supplies from the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) for delivery into the St. Louis metropolitan area.

A divided FERC rejected requests from two environmental groups for a rehearing over its decision to certify Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC’s Eastern System Upgrade (ESU) project on Thursday, with Commissioner Richard Glick dissenting in part, arguing that it should have considered the project’s contribution to climate change.

Commissioners Cheryl LaFleur and Richard Glick, the two Democratic members of the five-member FERC, dissented to natural gas pipeline certificates on their agenda Thursday, as they have several times in recent weeks, and shed some light on their reasoning in those cases.

FERC in an order Friday upheld its decision on the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), striking down rehearing requests from numerous environmental groups opposed to the 303-mile, 2 million Dth/d greenfield Appalachia-to-Southeast natural gas project.

FERC has authorized Florida Southeast Connection LLC to construct and operate its proposed Okeechobee Lateral project, which would provide up to 400,000 Dth/d of firm transportation service to the Okeechobee Clean Energy Center in south central Florida.

FERC on Thursday authorized Gulf South Pipeline Co.’s proposal to build and operate the Westlake Expansion Project in Calcasieu Parish, LA, with one notable dissent.

FERC Chairman Kevin McIntyre was diagnosed with a brain tumor last summer and has since undergone successful surgery, he disclosed Sunday.