Mealey's (February 3, 2022, 3:11 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — The Sierra Club and other environmental advocacy groups on Jan. 14 filed a reply brief in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals asserting the validity of their challenge to a permit issued to a company building a pipeline to carry hydraulically fractured oil and gas. The groups insist that the state water control board violated Virginia law when it failed to evaluate important aspects of the project....