Groups Renew Legal Attacks Against Mountain Valley Pipeline
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) – A coalition of environmental groups is making another legal attack against the Mountain Valley Pipeline project in West Virginia and Virginia.
The Roanoke Times reported Tuesday that the environmental groups are contesting a federal agency’s recent decision to allow the troubled project to move forward.
A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order in October allowed construction of the pipeline to resume. The order also extended for another two years its deadline for completion.
An attorney for Appalachian Mountain Advocates, which represents seven environmental groups, has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review FERC’s order. Environmental groups have raised concerns about sedimentation and blasting that they say impacts threatened and endangered species.
Mountain Valley has been cited repeatedly by regulators for failing to curb muddy runoff from construction sites.
An official with the federal agency declined to comment because of its policy of not talking about pending litigation. Mountain Valley said in a statement that the most recent filing is about stopping the pipeline, not environmental protection.
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