Company, Federal Agency Seek High Court Review Of Fracking Pipeline Ruling

(June 27, 2019, 2:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A pipeline company and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) each filed petitions for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on June 25, contending that the USFS has the authority under federal law to grant rights-of-way for the construction of a pipeline that would carry hydraulically fractured gas to Virginia and North Carolina (Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al., No. 18A1181, and United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al., No. 18A1182, U.S. Sup.)....

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