May 16, 2023
A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday axed part of a U.S. Department of Transportation agency's rule requiring rupture-mitigation valves to be installed on certain new or replacement transmission and gathering pipelines, finding the agency "cut corners" when it expanded its cost-benefit analysis for transmission lines to gathering ones.
March 06, 2023
A D.C. Circuit panel questioned on Monday whether a U.S. Department of Transportation agency adequately responded to concerns submitted by two oil and gas trade groups before adopting a new rule requiring rupture-mitigation valves to be installed on certain new or replacement-transmission and gathering pipelines alike.
February 15, 2023
A D.C. Circuit panel is questioning whether two oil and gas trade groups timely filed their appeal of a federal law requiring rupture-mitigation valves on certain gas gathering lines, and have asked the groups and federal regulators to submit briefs on the appropriate appeal deadline.
December 06, 2022
Federal regulators pushed back on the assertion that a 2011 bill limited their ability to craft a rule requiring rupture-mitigation valves on some gathering pipelines, telling the D.C. Circuit on Monday that an industry challenge to the rule has no merit.
October 24, 2022
Federal pipeline safety regulators unlawfully extended the reach of a Congressional mandate in requiring companies to install rupture mitigation valves on certain gas gathering lines, pipeline industry groups told the D.C. Circuit on Friday.