Rehearing

Back after a brief summer recess, Chairman Neil Chatterjee announced several structural changes at FERC’s monthly public meeting Thursday, designed to increase efficiency or streamline processes, but not, as had been reported in some quarters, to quash the Commission’s market oversight responsibilities.

The FERC deputy secretary who granted a request from two New Jersey agencies to rehear an order that issued certificates authorizing the PennEast pipeline was acting outside his authority, according to New Jersey Attorney General (AG) Gurbir Grewal.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) has written Chairman Kevin McIntyre asking that FERC grant rehearing requests on the Appalachia-to-Southeast Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) projects.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) has written Chairman Kevin McIntyre asking that FERC grant rehearing requests on the Appalachia-to-Southeast Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) projects.

A regulatory turf war between FERC and New York officials regarding the Valley Lateral Project to carry Marcellus Shale natural gas shows no sign of abating, and a federal appeals court in Manhattan agreed to hear arguments about the project next month.

Dozens of groups and individuals filed rehearings requests this week challenging FERC’s certificate orders approving the Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley (MVP) pipelines.

Capping a chaotic three days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia late Wednesday denied an emergency motion to stay FERC’s certificate for the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. (Transco) Atlantic Sunrise expansion, allowing construction to immediately resume.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) are calling on FERC to reverse its recent approval of construction activities for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.’s (TGP) Connecticut Expansion, citing the agency’s lack of a quorum.

Citing FERC’s lack of a quorum, a coalition of green groups filed a petition for review in federal appeals court Thursday challenging the approval of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project.