Changes to permitting rules pale in comparison to actually funding the agencies that carry those reviews out.
FERC
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Five People Who Help Make or Break the Future of the Planet
Whether you want the Green New Deal or to Build Back Better, it will require a better FERC.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
FERC Nominee Willie Phillips Has a Pro–Corporate Utility Record
In his time on D.C.’s Public Service Commission and before that as a corporate lawyer, Phillips consistently sided with utilities over the public interest.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Key Climate Appointment Biden Hasn’t Announced
A Republican majority on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission impedes action on fossil fuels.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Quiet Winner of the Texas Energy Crisis
Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, is poised to profit heavily off Texas’s briefly surging energy prices during the snowstorm. The Biden infrastructure program could be its next conquest.
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Frozen: Natural Disaster, Energy Choices, and Inhuman Responses in Texas
The Lone Star State is in free fall, pointing fingers everywhere else.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Goldman Sachs’s Shell Game
The mega-bank has created 61 different off-balance-sheet corporations with help from companies based in the Cayman Islands. That looks in no way shady!
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JPMorgan Concedes It’s Trying to Buy an Electric Utility
The bank had denied for months that it was behind the sale of El Paso Electric.
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JPMorgan Gets Back Into the Electricity Business
An El Paso, Texas, electric utility is being purchased by an investment fund with deep, undisclosed ties to the big bank.