Briefly: Parties In FERC Pipeline Permit Row Debate Role Of ‘Historic’ Rainfall

Mealey's (April 8, 2022, 1:30 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 7 grilled an attorney for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding the need for a supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) related to the construction of a pipeline in light of sediment erosion from “historic” amounts of rainfall, with one judge wondering if the fact that “things went South” on the project revealed that the initial order approving the pipeline was “not effective.”...