Mealey's (December 4, 2019, 1:36 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC on Dec. 2 filed separate briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, each contending that the USFS has authority, jurisdiction and power to grant rights of way through federal lands to build a pipeline that will carry hydraulically fractured gas (Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al., No. 18-1587, U.S. Sup., U.S. Forest Service, et al. v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al., No. 18-1584, U.S. Sup. [consolidated])....