Climate Changed
Trump's FERC Pick Could Tip Balance in Favor of Coal Bailout
- Energy Department lawyer Bernard McNamee tapped to join agency
- Choice comes amid Trump bid to subsidize coal, nuclear plants
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U.S. President Donald Trump tapped Energy Department staffer Bernard McNamee to join the nation’s top energy regulator, potentially smoothing the path for a brewing bailout of money-losing coal and nuclear plants.
If confirmed, McNamee would fill a seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently vacated by Robert Powelson, the panel’s most outspoken Republican critic of the administration’s bid to throw a lifeline to the coal industry.