Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC v. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

ELR Citation: 51 ELR 20041
No(s). 20-1971 (4th Cir. Mar 11, 2021)

The Fourth Circuit granted a pipeline company's petition to review the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's (NCDEQ's) denial of a CWA §401 certification for construction of a natural gas pipeline. The company argued the denial was arbitrary and capricious because NCDEQ did not compl...