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Devin Hartman, electricity policy manager at the R Street Institute, a free-market think tank, said FERC faces significant political pressure from Capitol Hill and the White House. But even that pressure might not lead FERC to find that its current rules and market tariffs fail to account for electric reliability and resilience.

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