EPA's Criticisms Of FERC's Pipeline NEPA GHG Review Could Bolster Suit

January 29, 2015
EPA is criticizing as too narrow a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of a proposed natural gas pipeline, and the agency's criticisms could boost environmentalists' expected suit over FERC's approval of the pipeline project. Environmentalists have already filed a request for rehearing on the final NEPA environmental impact statement (FEIS), fighting FERC's decision early in December to approve the Constitution Pipeline, which would allow construction of a...


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