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Army Corps gives Virginia more time on Mountain Valley Pipeline permit
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today partially granted a request from Virginia for additional time to review a water-crossing permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Under the Corps’ original timeline, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality would have had just four months to decide whether to approve or deny the permit, or waive its…
Read MoreCorps suspends stream-crossing permit for entire length of Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The Army Corps of Engineers late yesterday suspended an essential permit for the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline, meaning its developers cannot do any work on stream or wetland crossings along its entire 600-mile route in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. Known as the Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP 12), the permit authorized developers to…
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