FERC Greenhouse Gas and Environmental Justice Policy Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires FERC to account for greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice effects in Natural Gas Act certificate decisions and to require mitigation proposals for proposed actions.
Who Benefits and How
Environmental justice communities and climate-focused stakeholders gain stronger consideration of cumulative impacts, emissions, and mitigation in pipeline and related certificate reviews.
Who Bears the Burden and How
FERC and certificate applicants face more extensive evidentiary, mitigation, and explanation requirements before projects can be approved.
Key Provisions
- Requires FERC to evaluate significant environmental and environmental-justice effects and quantify reasonably foreseeable greenhouse gas emissions.
- Requires applicants to submit mitigation proposals and allows FERC to attach mitigation conditions to certificates.
- Creates presumptions and explanation requirements when projects exceed significance thresholds or are approved despite unmitigated harms.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires FERC to account for greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice effects in Natural Gas Act certificate decisions and to require mitigation proposals for proposed actions.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Energy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires FERC to account for greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice effects in Natural Gas Act certificate decisions and to require mitigation proposals for proposed actions.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Environmental justice communities
- Communities affected by natural gas infrastructure
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Natural gas certificate applicants
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Durbin (for himself, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Environmental justice communities near proposed gas projects
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the commission"
- → Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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