Ten AGs Called for FERC Commissioner McNamee’s Recusal from Grid Resiliency Proceedings

JANUARY 28, 2019

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey led a coalition of 10 attorneys general in filing comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) calling for Commissioner Bernard McNamee’s recusal from the commission’s grid resiliency proceeding. The attorneys general cited a pattern of negative public comments toward renewable energy by Commissioner McNamee, as well as his past leadership of the Energy Department’s failed bid to bail out the coal industry. Commissioner McNamee indicated he would recuse himself from additional proceedings in that docket, but did not recuse himself from the commission’s closely related grid resiliency proceeding, which involves many of the same issues.