Chip Roy: “The amendment that I am offering here directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, as we refer to it, to…”

“The amendment that I am offering here directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, as we refer to it, to withdraw two policy statements that massively expand the role of climate hysteria in certification of natural gas infrastructure, like pipelines and LNG export terminals. In February 2022, FERC released two radical policy statements that massively increased the role that the emissions play in its certification of natural gas pipelines and LNG export terminals, which are so critical to our ability to affect world consumption of gas so that we can drive down CO<INF>2</INF> and expand our role in the world and expand American energy interests. This included requiring FERC to consider the upstream and downstream impact on emissions that building a new natural gas pipeline would have. Even Senator Manchin said: ``The Commission went too far by prioritizing a political agenda over their main mission--ensuring our Nation's energy reliability and security.'' I want everybody to hear this. This move by FERC came 1 week before Russia invaded Ukraine. This administration is perfectly fine empowering our enemies to appease the climate activists, the climate cult. We saw it with Nord Stream 2. We see it right here. We refuse to expand American energy right when we could be sticking it to Putin.…”