Groups’ Pipeline Challenge Fails, Panel Rules; Evidence Supports Need For Project

Mealey's (February 20, 2019, 12:56 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 19 denied environmental groups’ challenge to the construction of a pipeline to carry hydraulically fractured gas through parts of West Virginia and Virginia, ruling that the market need for the pipeline was “reasonable” and supported by “substantial” evidence (Appalachian Voices, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, No. 17-1271, D.C. Cir.)....