Judge Orders Hearing On Transmission Line Removal In Key NEPA Case

A federal district court will hold an Oct. 15 hearing to decide whether he will force Virginia utility Dominion to remove transmission lines and two towers that cross the historic James River, as part of a key National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) case challenging the Trump administration’s accelerated NEPA review policies. The hearing follows an earlier ruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that found the Army Corps of Engineers violated NEPA when it failed to...