Source: Kate Mishkin, HERALD-DISPATCH, 7/28/19


A federal appeals court has pulled another permit issued to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, saying the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had fast-tracked the permit, putting threatened species at risk. On Friday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, vacated the project's Biological Opinion and Incidental Take Statement — permits issued by Fish and Wildlife related to the project's effects on endangered and threatened species.

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