Cheryl A. LaFleur announced on June 20 that she will not seek another term as a US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member, which effectively will reduce the commission to the three-member minimum required for it to continue operating.
“After 9 amazing years, I will be leaving FERC at the end of August. The July open meeting will be my last and I have a lot of people to thank,” she said in a posting on Twitter.
Her upcoming departure put pressure on the White House to nominate her successor and move FERC closer to a full complement of commissioners. “During her 9 years of service, Commissioner LaFleur has been a source of wisdom and stability at FERC,” Chairman Neil Chatterjee said.
While at FERC, LaFleur was acting-chairman twice—from November 2013 to July 2014 and from January to August 2017—as well as chairman from July 2014 until April 2015.
US Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), the Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s ranking minority member, said, “FERC was designed as a five-member commission and I urge the administration to move quickly to nominate individuals to fill the two open seats simultaneously in a bipartisan manner.”
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NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.
