Washington, Oregon Challenge FERC Gas Pipeline Approval (1)

Washington state and Oregon filed a federal lawsuit challenging Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders approving a natural gas pipeline expansion project.

The project “will increase air pollution, harm wildlife owned by the States of Washington and Oregon, and increase safety hazards to state-owned property near the pipeline,” the suit filed Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said.

The states also raised concern that the project will increase greenhouse gas emissions and “exacerbate climate change harms to state-owned coastal land, forests, parks, and other property.”

FERC in October 2023 gave its approval to Gas Transmission Northwest ...