The Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a lower court injunction on the Mountain Valley Pipeline, allowing construction to continue on the nearly complete 303-mile natural gas conduit between West Virginia and Virginia.
, allowing construction to continue on the nearly complete 303-mile natural gas conduit between West Virginia and Virginia.administration’s request to lift an injunction imposed by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which was weighing arguments in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups and American Indian tribes.Mountain Valley Pipeline LLCAbout 20 miles of the pipeline remain to be built, and its completion is expected by the end of the year.
is vital to the survival of American energy independence and affects thousands of jobs in West Virginia — its completion is also critical to our national security, the urgent need is for it to be completed as soon as possible.
They said the U.S. Forest Service bent the rules to authorize the pipeline through the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia and West Virginia. They also said the pipeline clashes with the Endangered Species Act. Advocates of indigenous people have joined environmentalists over the years in protesting the pipeline, which was authorized in 2017.signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act, requiring federal permits for the project to be issued by the end of that month.
The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica fields in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The 4th Circuit’s injunction that halted work on the pipeline in the Jefferson National Forest earlier this month.
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