Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Environmental Defense Fund Up Against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Battle Over 66-Mile Natural Gas Pipeline

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As reported on Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) website on October 23, 2020, EDF filed a reply brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) asking the court to strike down FERC's approval for the Spire STL Pipeline which ignored its statutory regulations to protect the public interest.
The reply brief maintains that FERC did not provide evidence showing need for the project and that this private business decision was allowed to "override the wide-sweeping public interest ramifications-on the affiliates' captive customers, the viability of neighboring pipelines, the degradation of the environment, and the persistent and invasive seizure of private property by eminent domain."
EDF, along with a mix of experts and organizations, states that FERC failed to evaluate and "adequately assess" the need under the Natural Gas Act when it failed to properly evaluate the economic and market facts that should guide their decision. Read more at https://www.edf.org/media/edf-urges-dc-circuit-strike-down-unlawful-approval-natural-gas-pipeline.

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