Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., listens as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen responds to a question by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. FILE - Construction crews bore beneath U.S. 221 in Roanoke County, Va., June 22, 2018, to make a tunnel through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline will pass under the highway.
The five-member commission oversees natural gas pipelines and other energy infrastructure, including transmission of electricity across state lines. The panel approved a long-awaited rule last montheliminate greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide by 2050. “A fully seated, bipartisan FERC provides more opportunity for advancing long-lasting, sensible energy infrastructure policy,’' said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat-turned-independent who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Rosner, a former FERC staffer, has spent the past two years on Manchin’s Democratic staff on the energy committee. See, who serves as solicitor general for the state of West Virginia, argued the state’s case challenging a majorbefore the Supreme Court. Chang, of Massachusetts, is a former undersecretary of energy and climate solutions for the state government.