Briefly: 4th Circuit Panel Reverses Permit For MVP Pipeline A Second Time

Mealey's (February 4, 2022, 1:38 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 3 vacated and remanded for a second time the permit approval granted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 304-mile pipeline that would carry hydraulically fractured oil and gas from West Virginia into Virginia, ruling that there were flaws in environmental assessments that analyzed the project’s impact on two species of endangered fish....