March 07, 2018
The D.C. Circuit on Wednesday gave the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission more time to finish redoing its approval of a $3.5 billion interstate natural gas project in the South, preventing the pipelines at issue from potentially ceasing operations.
January 31, 2018
The D.C. Circuit declined Wednesday to review a panel decision finding that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission didn't adequately analyze the impact of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from a $3.5 billion natural gas pipeline the agency approved in the South.
December 15, 2017
Courts answered several important environmental law questions in 2017, including how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may regulate recycling and hydrofluorocarbons, and how the effects of greenhouse gases must be factored into project analyses. Here are the biggest rulings in environmental cases from 2017.
November 13, 2017
The Sierra Club on Friday urged the D.C. Circuit to stick with its decision nixing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a $3.5 billion pipeline project to Florida after concluding the agency's greenhouse gas emissions review was inadequate, arguing that it's the appropriate remedy under federal environmental law.
August 24, 2017
The D.C. Circuit's recent ruling that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have analyzed downstream greenhouse gas emission impacts before approving a natural gas pipeline to Florida will force the agency to more fully address climate change in future project reviews, making the approval process longer and more expensive for developers, experts say.
August 22, 2017
A divided D.C. Circuit panel said Tuesday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission failed to adequately analyze the greenhouse gas emissions impacts of a $3.5 billion natural gas pipeline to Florida it approved and ordered the agency to redo its environmental review of the project.
April 18, 2017
A D.C. Circuit panel peppered the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with questions over its approval of a $3.5 billion natural gas pipeline to Florida during oral arguments Tuesday, examining the agency’s analysis of the impact on local minority communities, greenhouse gas emissions and even the project's rate of return.
February 08, 2017
Developers of a $3.5 billion pipeline project as well as two utilities that would use the gas transported in the pipeline hit back on Tuesday at petitions challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the project, saying the petitions don’t mount serious challenges to the commission’s core findings.
February 01, 2017
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission defended on Tuesday its approval of a $3.5 billion natural gas pipeline running from Alabama to Florida, telling the D.C. Circuit that it satisfied all requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and Natural Gas Act when reviewing and approving the project.
December 09, 2016
The Sierra Club and other environmental groups told the D.C. Circuit on Friday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission didn't properly consider the impacts of the proposed $3.5 billion Southeast Market Pipelines Project on minority and low-income communities when approving the project.