Landowners Ask SCOTUS to Pause Mountain Valley Pipeline (1)

Virginia landowners asked the US Supreme Court to pause work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline through their property while their constitutional challenge continues in the D.C. Circuit.

The emergency application was docketed Wednesday, asking Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to temporarily prevent what the landowners call any further harm to the properties after the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied that relief in October.

The landowners had claimed bulldozers were already on the properties and that the company ramped up construction on the 300-mile natural gas pipeline.

They said the case playing out in the D.C. ...