Mealey's (December 10, 2019, 12:27 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Multiple parties on Dec. 9 filed amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court primarily in support of a hydraulic fracturing pipeline company and the federal agency that approved the pipeline’s construction through public forest lands. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) specifically argues that “the entire federal government” has “uniformly and sensibly” recognized the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) authority to grant rights-of-way (Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al., No. 18-1587, U.S. Forest Service, et al. v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al., No. 18-1584, U.S. Sup. [consolidated])....