ACP Places Fate in Supreme Court’s Hands; ‘The Facts Are on Our Side’

摘要

The stalled Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (ACP) has ofcially petitioned the nation’s highest court in an efort to uphold its plans to cross the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, with the project’s schedule likely hanging in the balance. ACP’s sponsors had tele- graphed their plans to seek the U.S. Supreme Court’s judgment as they look to overturn a decision in December by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decision, which tossed out a crit- ical U.S. Forest Service (USFS) sign-of.