D.C. Circuit Judges Question FERC Study Of ‘Need’ For Gas Pipeline

Appellate judges during March 8 oral arguments aggressively pressed attorneys for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on whether it adequately studied the “need” for a new gas pipeline in a case that highlights environmentalists’ efforts to block such projects due to their adverse climate impacts. Senior Judge Harry Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, for example, characterized a key FERC stance as “not a winning argument” and a “strange argument.” Litigation over...