Supreme Court Clears Legal Hurdle for US Pipelines – For Now

摘要

The US Supreme Court has intervened to allow pipeline developers to utilize a streamlined water permitting program after a district court scrapped it, although the decision doesn’t help the embattled Keystone XL project at issue in the appeal. In a fairly rare move, the high court late Monday overturned an order issued in May by the US District Court for the District of Montana blocking the US Army Corps of Engineers from using its nationwide permit program to authorize major pipeline construction in federal waterways.