Federal regulators and West Virginia agencies are once again rewriting environmental rules to push the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline through the permitting process, according to ProPublica.
Last month the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that environmental groups are likely to prevail in a case arguing federal and state regulators wrongly approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline through a streamlined review process for which the project isn’t eligible. In response to the loss, West Virginia officials are reworking their restrictions to ensure the pipeline qualifies for that streamlined permitting process.
But this isn’t the first time the rules have been changed for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection gave the project a similar privilege in 2018.
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