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Is FERC’s Future at Stake in its Titanic Clash with American Efficient?

Inside Climate News · By Lisa Sorg · last updated
The federal energy regulator alleges the company has sold bogus energy efficiency claims to electric grid operators. But American Efficient has mounted a stiff counteroffensive, challenging FERC’s constitutionality in ways that could appeal to President Donald Trump.

By Lisa Sorg

DURHAM, N.C.—At Duke University, an elite school teeming with stars, Ben Abram shone among the brightest. Media reports from his undergraduate years, 2003 to 2007, portray a young man whose vigor was rivaled only by his ambition: Senior class president of the engineering school. Winner of two prestigious service awards. And after graduation, a member of the university board of trustees.