Challenges to the environmental impacts of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) have continued in the past week in two federal court proceedings. On April 1, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals refused an appeal by the pipeline’s owners to reconsider
Court may back Mountain Valley pipeline, despite NEPA fight
Card – E&E News – 1/20/22
Biden to nominate Democrat Willie Phillips to U.S. energy regulator -White House
Card – Reuters – 9/9/21 Related: Biden taps D.C. utility regulator Phillips for FERC
D.C. Circuit Court Declines to Revisit Decision Striking Down FERC’s Approval of the Spire Pipeline
Card – Environmental Defense Fund – 9/7/21 Related: D.C. Circuit battle escalates over FERC pipeline approval
DC Circuit slams FERC criteria for approving pipelines
The long-standing practice of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) justifying the need for a new pipeline by over relying on a pipeline’s plans to sell gas to an associated company (e.g., precedent agreements) to establish market need was called
D.C. Circuit won’t halt pipeline to Ore. LNG terminal
Card – E&E Energywire – 10/7/20 Related: It’s His Land. Now a Canadian Company Gets to Take It.
Appeals Court Hears Arguments Challenging FERC’s “Tolling Order” Policy
The long practice of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to delay making decisions on appeals of its rulings – so-called “tolling orders” – was challenged in oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, April 27.
D.C. Circuit Hears Challenge to Unjust FERC Practice Used to Advance Construction of Unnecessary Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Card – Southern Environmental Law Center – 4/27/20
Judges tussle over FERC pipeline ‘limbo’
Card – E&E News – 4/28/20 Related: Chatterjee defends how FERC treats protesting landowners Subcommittee Releases Preliminary Findings Showing FERC Pipeline Approval Process Skewed Against Landowners
Federal Court Rebuffs FWS Over Classification of Northern Long-Eared Bat
The 2015 listing of the northern long-eared bat as “threatened” rather than “endangered” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has been rejected by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The January 28 decision by the Court,