Scrapped ACP Pipeline Shows Growing Legal Threats Despite Trump Efforts

July 6, 2020
Dominion Energy and Duke Energy’s July 5 announcement that they are cancelling the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) because of ongoing legal delays and cost uncertainty is prompting environmentalists to suggest that other pipelines may face similar fates while industry is urgently calling for permitting reform to counter the legal setbacks. Environmentalists attribute some of their judicial successes to efforts by the Trump administration to speed natural gas infrastructure approvals, which they say ultimately led to weak permits vulnerable to court...


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