D.C. Circuit Reverses First LNG Vacatur Following Trump’s EJ Directives

The D.C. Circuit is reversing its first-time vacatur of a liquified natural gas (LNG) project approval and instead remanding the issue to federal regulators for additional environmental justice (EJ) study, even as it acknowledges that the Trump administration’s reversal of EJ directives could be “highly relevant” to how regulators proceed. The March 18 opinion in City of Port Isabel v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), et al. , comes in response to industry petitions for a three-judge panel of the...