BIDEN APPOINTEE’S RENEWABLES CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: You may never have heard of Richard Glick, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an obscure federal agency with significant energy industry power (no pun intended). Biden would probably prefer that your ignorance continue.

But in the interest of advancing public understanding, check out this report by The Washington Free Beacon’s Colin Anderson and Joseph Simonson who did some digging and discovered something important: Glick’s FERC recently approved an off-shore wind farm project half-owned by the U.S. subsidiary of a Spanish firm for which he has lobbied for years.

Now, I’m from out of town and all, but where I come from, that’s spelled C-O-N-F-L-I-C-T-O-F-I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T. But wait, there’s more! Anderson and Simonson note:

“Glick is not the only top environmental official with ties to a green energy company championed by the Biden administration. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm holds up to a $5 million stake in Proterra, an electric bus manufacturer that Biden has promoted on multiple occasions. A slew of Biden’s top donors also have sizable investments in the company, and Proterra recently turned to a pair of Obama administration alums to lobby the White House for funding.

“In addition to Glick, deputy interior secretary nominee Tommy Beaudreau represented Vineyard Wind as a corporate attorney. Under federal ethics rules, Beaudreau is barred from participating in any ‘particular matter’ involving his former clients for two years. The Biden appointee can, however, assert himself into deliberations pertaining to the wind industry as a whole.”

There’s yet more blowing in the wind on this one, so stay tuned.