GOP Leaders Demand Answers From Biden Administration on Life-Threatening Blackouts
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation warned in late May that parts of the U.S. face the possibility of blackout in the coming weeks.
Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, is leading a group of GOP leaders demanding to know what plans the Biden administration has to prevent electricity blackouts that are predicted for this summer.
McMorris Rodgers is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In that capacity, she authored two letters this week that were signed by 25 other Republicans.
The duplicate letters have been sent to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Richard Glick, chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The letters demand information by June 21 about what steps Granholm and FERC are taking to keep lights and air conditioners on across America during the summer heat.
“These reliability risks have been unfolding in plain sight, yet we have seen little concerted effort during the Biden a