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Jon Wellinghoff

I suggest a specific article about Jon Wellinghoff. --147.84.132.44 (talk) 14:34, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Federal Power Commission

This article specifies the establishment of the Federal Power Commission in 1920 and a change towards an independent regulatory agency (IRA) in 1935. Contrary to that, the article on the Federal Power Commission states that it was "organized originally on June 23, 1930". Which one is the correct date? Could somebody clarify? See also: Talk:Federal Power Commission. --Pelzkragen (talk) 15:11, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

The Federal Power Commission article just covers what this agency was before 1977. I don't see why it can simply be merged into the History section of this article. Cheers. Rehman 01:32, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Beagel (talk) 09:22, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This will only cause confusion by making the article over-complicated. Our general practice with major agencies is to keep all but trivial namer changes in separate articles, and that should apply here also. DGG ( talk ) 07:46, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Add sub-headings (level-3) under History for FPC and FERC to enhance access to FPC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SBaker43 (talk • contribs) 19:07, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I agree with SBaker43 and DGG. The charges of the agencies lend themselves to separate discussion. The Federal Power Commission had a much narrower charge, and there is plenty of history for a separate article. --Bejnar (talk) 20:44, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw merge, per above. Will do the necessary tweaks to clean things up. Kind regards. Rehman 01:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No way FERC is self funding

This is a commonly cited fallacy when describing government agencies. Federal agencies operate solely at the discretion of taxpayer funding. To the extent this agency 'funds' itself through licenses, etc., I'd like to see definitive proof, otherwise I will remove these sentences. 10stone5 (talk) 23:31, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes way. "The Commission is funded through costs recovered by the fees and annual charges from the industries it regulates." Page seems to be offline now, but can easily be found in Google Cache. [1] --Bill Huston ^(talk) 20:07, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ron Binz, President Obama's nominee for Chairman, FERC

The President has nominated Ron Binz for the new Chairman, and he has attracted some criticism from the Wall Street Journal, for example "Target: Natural Gas -- Ron Binz calls it a 'dead end' technology, and he'll try to make it so."

It appears that Binz should get a wiki-bio page. --Pete Tillman (talk) 06:26, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a straight news article on the controversy: An Unusual Public Battle Over an Energy Nomination at NY Times, 9/16/13. --Pete Tillman (talk) 17:26, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Moot for here, as Binz has withdrawn as a candidate: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/business/energy-environment/new-hunt-for-head-of-energy-regulator-after-candidate-withdraws.html?src=recg --Pete Tillman (talk) 22:12, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism Section?

Remarkably, there is no "criticism" section. FERC has been catching a lot of heat recently by environmental and community-rights activists, the industry press, and even the mainstream media. I'm adding this section with a few facts and references, just as a starter. IMO, FERC is guilty of a litany of violations of law, putting the lives of many people in danger. --Bill Huston ^(talk) 20:59, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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