Southern Environmental Law Center: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Problems Persist Despite Supreme Court Decision
June 16, 2020
June 16, 2020
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, June 16 -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on June 15:
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that limited the U.S. Forest Service's authority to issue a permit to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The original ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals stated the Forest Service lacked authority to grant approval for Dominion and Duke Energy's pipeline to cross the Appalachian Trail on federal l . . .
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that limited the U.S. Forest Service's authority to issue a permit to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The original ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals stated the Forest Service lacked authority to grant approval for Dominion and Duke Energy's pipeline to cross the Appalachian Trail on federal l . . .