FERC - "Answer to Motions for Stay, and Motion for Leave to Answer of the Applicants to Requests for Rehearing by Sierra Club, Niskanen Center, et al., Kenneth E. Cates, et al., and Mark Sheldon under CP17-494, et al."

Title: Answer to Motions for Stay, and Motion for Leave to Answer of the Applicants to Requests for Rehearing by Sierra Club, Niskanen Center, et al., Kenneth E. Cates, et al., and Mark Sheldon under CP17-494, et al. Source: FERC Data/Action: ALJ Initial Decisions Date: 5/5/2020 Text Preview: ...Act ("NEPA") analysis, including challenges to the review and analysis of greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions, connected actions, and cumulative impacts; challenges... ...Commission was not required to give additional weight to GHG emissions or climate change in its NGA analyses. Some requesters argue that the Commission was required... ...climate change.266 In light of this analysis, the Commission reasonably concluded that these limited GHG emissions-along with all other environmental impacts associated with the Project- are "acceptable considering the public benefits that will be provided."267 Some requesters, echoing an argument made in Commissioner Glick's dissent, suggest that the Commission engaged in arbitrary decision-making by simultaneously concluding that it "cannot assess the significance of the Project's impact on climate change"...