Source: CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/6/19


When it comes to approving natural gas pipelines, North Carolina’s environmental regulators apparently can’t keep their standards straight. The state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has approved the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s passage through central North Carolina over the howls of environmentalists, but the agency is raising strong objections to the proposed 74-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate extension that would run from Rockingham County to Graham.

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