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Environmentalists also were disappointed by the decision.
“As we face the existential crisis of climate change, it is devastating that our highest court has chosen to embolden fossil fuel companies, empowering them to trample over the rights and obligation of our state governments to protect its natural resources for the benefit of its residents, communities and future generations, Maya van Rossum, of the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, said in a statement. It is so disturbing that the profit making goals of a private pipeline corporation would be given greater respect and protection than the rights of states and people.
U.S. Supreme Court
In a narrow 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court revived the 116-mile PennEast gas pipeline project, overturning a lower court’s decision that blocked the company from condemning state-owned land in New Jersey to move the project forward.
The decision released Tuesday could make it easier for new pipeline projects to be built despite efforts by states and environmentalists to block them, a strategy largely driven by fears that increasing emissions from fossil fuels will quicken the pace of climate change in an already global-warming planet.
But the $1 billion project, first proposed more than seven years ago, still faces big challenges both in the courts and with regulatory agencies before building can begin on the pipeline designed to deliver cheap natural gas from the Marcellus Shale region in Pennsylvania to New Jersey.
Supreme Court won t sidetrack plans for natural gas pipeline
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WASHINGTON (June 29, 2021) The Supreme Court dealt a blow to New Jersey and other states seeking a way to oppose pipelines running through their land, siding with a pipeline company Tuesday in a dispute over New Jersey land needed for a natural gas pipeline.
Both liberal and conservative justices joined to rule 5-4 for the PennEast Pipeline Co. The ruling says that companies building interstate pipelines, once their projects have been given the greenlight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, can obtain the land they need even in the face of state opposition.
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