A Short History Lesson on Why NY’s Pipeline Bans are Illegal
On multiple occasions we have outlined the reasons why federal agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) exist--in order to prevent individual states from harming their neighbors economically. An individual state can't block a new interstate highway, or the trucks and cars that travel it, from entering their state. It's the same for power transmission lines and for pipelines. Yet New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is violating that law by rejecting interstate pipelines.
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