{"id":26199,"date":"2023-01-31T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26199"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:43:06","slug":"climate-activists-cant-be-allowed-to-politicize-ferc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26199\/climate-activists-cant-be-allowed-to-politicize-ferc\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Activists Can&#8217;t Be Allowed to Politicize FERC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jan\/30\/we-cant-let-climate-activists-politicize-ferc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> published today by the <em>Washington Times<\/em>, CFIF Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In our relentlessly expanding regulatory state, where administrative agencies regularly succumb to pressure from hyperpartisan activists, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has historically remained a rare exception above the fray. Unlike such flashpoint agencies as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, the FERC rarely receives popular focus. <strong>More recently, however, climate extremists have targeted the FERC and sought to poison the traditionally uncontroversial but vital federal commission.\u00a0<\/strong>(emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jan\/30\/we-cant-let-climate-activists-politicize-ferc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed published today by the Washington Times, CFIF Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs writes: In our relentlessly expanding regulatory state, where administrative agencies regularly succumb to pressure from hyperpartisan activists, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has historically remained a rare exception above the fray. Unlike such flashpoint agencies as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,5204,300],"class_list":["post-26199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-energy","tag-federal-energy-regulatory-commission","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26201,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199\/revisions\/26201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}