Supreme Court to Hear New Jersey Natural Gas Pipeline Case

摘要

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a gas company seeking to use state-controlled land in New Jersey to build a 116-mile natural gas pipeline. The high court said it would take the case brought by the PennEast Pipeline Co. and that the case would be argued in April. In 2019, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia sided with New Jersey officials who argued the company can't use eminent domain to acquire state-controlled properties that are preserved for farmland or open space. The judges wrote that while the federal Natural Gas Act allows private gas companies to exercise the federal government's power to take property by eminent domain, that doesn't extend to state-owned properties.