By Catherine Traywick, Bloomberg News
President Donald Trump named attorney Kevin McIntyre as his pick for chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, paving the way for the agency to regain its authority to rule on natural gas pipelines and contested utility mergers.
McIntyre, co-head of Jones Day’s global energy practice, would take the reins from acting chairman Cheryl LaFleur and is the third Republican Trump has named to the committee, according to a statement from the White House on Thursday. In May, Trump named Neil Chatterjee, senior energy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Robert Powelson, former ...
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