US energy regulators remove old environmental rules they were no longer using

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has removed references to old environmental rules from its own regulations. This means the agency is cleaning up its rulebook to match current environmental policy.

This change is a cleanup operation. The old rules were already rescinded by the Council on Environmental Quality in 2020, but the energy commission's own documents still referred to them. This update simply removes those outdated references, aligning the commission's internal rules with the current federal environmental policy.