What Lindsay See thought would be a few years as West Virginia’s solicitor general turned into a seven-year run — and the new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member said Friday that she’ll always be a “state evangelist.”
See, who joined FERC in June, said her time representing West Virginia was an “opportunity to really put my money where my mouth was” on important state and local work.
As one of West Virginia’s most senior lawyers, See argued on behalf of red states and coal interests in West Virginia v. EPA — the landmark Supreme Court decision that limited EPA’s ability to regulate carbon pollution from the power sector. She also defended the state on permits it had issued for the now-operational Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline.
At FERC, See is now one of two Republican members on a five-member federal panel that oversees everything from interstate natural gas pipelines to electric transmission projects.
