The Biden administration is bucking environmentalists and joining Republican-backed support for completing the Mountain Valley Pipeline -- a 303-mile-long conduit that will deliver natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia.
and Appalachian Voices, among others, argued in their appellate court filing that Congress couldn’t authorize the pipeline and dictate jurisdiction over lawsuits challenging it because that violates the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers.
Indigenous people organizations have joined environmentalists over the years in protesting the pipeline, which was authorized in 2017. The Biden administration’s request was presented to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who could act alone or refer the matter to the full court for consideration.
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