With the departure of Democratic Commissioner Cherly LaFleur earlier this summer, there are only three commissioners left. That’s barely enough for a quorum, and gives the last remaining Democrat, Richard Glick extra leverage to block votes by refusing to participate.
At the same time, there’s been an explosion in protests and opposition to pipelines. Inspired by campaigns against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, activists have been rising up to resist fossil fuel infrastructure from coast to coast. And lately a combination of tactics that merge protest and legal action have combined to stop big projects like Keystone and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
So the fossil fuel companies are getting nervous. And now they're are betting billions of dollars that the Supreme Court will back them where lower courts have consistently sided with landowners, the environment, and climate action.
And that’s where Danly comes in: Fossil fuel profiteers and their cronies in the Trump Administration can only win in court if they have regulators who ignore the lower courts. And while Danly claims to be a moderate, he’s the legal mind behind FERC’s refusal to even consider the climate impacts of pipelines and projects it reviews.
And, just like Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Danly’s nomination follows a Republican campaign to stack FERC with their preferred commissioners.
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