Mountain Valley Pipeline Faces FERC Permitting Roadblock (1)

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must revisit multiple orders allowing work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline to resume, after an appeals court held Friday that the agency had inadequately explained its decision to skirt certain review related to the project’s sedimentation impact.

The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected most of the environmental groups’ challenges to FERC’s orders allowing construction to advance. However, the three-judge panel agreed with the groups’ claim that the regulator failed to adequately explain its decision to not prepare a supplemental analysis on erosion and sedimentation along the pipeline’s right-of-way.

But the court ...