Supreme Court Denies Request to Pause Mountain Valley Pipeline

The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it won’t temporarily stop Mountain Valley Pipeline from working on a portion of the 300-mile natural gas pipeline going through Virginia landowners’ property.

The landowners sent the emergency application to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the end of November, asking for prevention of what they called any further harm to their properties while their case continued in the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

The high court declined to enjoin the ruling of the D.C. Circuit, which had denied the landowners an injunction in October, but didn’t provide reasoning ...