The House and Senate are on a collision course sponsoring different pieces of legislation that attempt to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) new authority to speed approval of new pipeline projects. The bill the House Energy Commerce Committee passed on June 28 ups the ante in favor of the industry compared to an earlier draft of the "Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act" (H.R. 2910) introduced in May, which generally followed the lines of similar legislation introduced in past Congresses, but never passed.
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