Senate committee advances FERC nominee McNamee despite 'unfortunate' comments

Utility Dive: Approval from the Energy and Natural Resources Committee shows that Republicans are likely to forge ahead with McNamee's confirmation to FERC despite mounting concerns among environmental groups and the clean energy industry that the nominee is biased against renewables and toward fossil fuels.

Last week, Utility Dive posted a video of McNamee speaking at a conference for Texas lawmakers in February. In the speech, he said renewables "mess up the whole physics of the grid," referred to carbon dioxide as not a "real pollutant," and portrayed industry lawsuits against environmental groups as a "constant battle between liberty and tyranny."

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