Virginia air board denies compressor station on EJ grounds

The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board has denied a permit for a compressor station for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on environmental justice (EJ) grounds, handing a victory to environmentalists who have so far struggled to get state regulators to address such concerns in permit decisions. The Virginia board Dec. 3 voted 6-1 to deny the facility’s permit, finding that it failed to meet EJ requirements set in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and in a Virginia...