Ohio AG Denied Another Chance to Litigate Rover Pipeline Spill

Ohio’s attorney general was deprived Tuesday of another chance to prove it can hold the builders of an interstate natural gas pipeline responsible for discharging millions of gallons of diesel fuel-laced drilling fluids into wetlands.

The state’s claims against the companies behind the Rover Pipeline, depending on the arguments the office of Attorney General Dave Yost (R) made, are based on state statutes that are preempted by federal law, the Ohio Court of Appeals, Fifth District ruled in upholding a trial judge’s decision.

Another argument, which says the state can hold the companies responsible because of powers given to it ...