March 2022, Vol. 249, No. 3
Editor's Notebook
So Close, Yet So Far
By Michael Reed, Editor-in-Chief That victory for midstream was certainly short-lived. Once again, a U.S. appeals court has tossed out permits granted by federal agencies that would have allowed the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to cross a 3.5-mile (5.6-km) section of the Jefferson National Forest as it traverses a portion of the Jefferson National Forest in Appalachia. According to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, both the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), came up short in their assessment techniques regarding erosion and sediment deposits caused by the construction of large infrastructure projects, such as pipelines. One judge, St

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