The Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling that halted construction of a natural gas pipeline long championed by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
by the the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline through a 3.5-mile stretch of the Jefferson National Forest.
Sen. Joe Manchin has been a vocal proponent of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has been tangled up in courts for years.Environmentalist groups have raised concerns about the impact of MVP construction on soil and water quality in the Jefferson National Forrest.The appeals court imposed the stay while it reviewed the challenge to the pipeline’s construction.
“Whatever benefit respondents or the court of appeals might believe would be gained by having the agencies again reconsider the challenged actions, Congress has determined that further reconsideration is unwarranted and has prioritized MVP’s ‘timely’ completion over interests addressed by any other federal statutes,” the Department of Justice wrote in an amicus brief last week. Since construction began in 2018, the $6.
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