A federal appeals court should immediately block construction of a 300-mile pipeline project that would run from West Virginia to Virginia, environmental advocates said.
The Sierra Club and other environmental organizations Jan. 8 asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to immediately suspend regulatory approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline to prevent the start of property taking and land-clearing activities. The lawsuit challenges an October 2017 approval for the project granted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline would carry natural gas from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia ...
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