High Court Rejects Developer Request To Review Pipeline ‘Need’ Ruling

The Supreme Court has rejected a pipeline company’s request to reinstate federal officials’ approval of its St. Louis-area natural gas project after environmentalists’ successfully challenged officials’ analysis of whether the project is “needed,” underscoring the hurdles such projects face due to concerns over their climate impacts. The high court’s unsigned April 18 order in Spire Missouri v. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) comes as the Spire STL pipeline continues to operate on a temporary approval that the Federal Energy Regulatory...