President Joe Biden has picked two Massachusetts residents with an interest in climate change to serve on the federal panel that regulates interstate oil pipelines, interstate natural gas pipelines, and much of the nation's electricity grid.
The nominations come at a time when climate activists are trying to get what The Washington Post in April 2022 called the "little-known federal agency" to use its scrutiny of projects to enact climate-change rules that supporters have been unable to get through Congress as legislation.
