PennEast may change pipeline route if it loses Supreme Court case MyCentralJersey.com WASHINGTON – An attorney for PennEast told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the company would change its plans to build a natural gas pipeline if it loses a legal battle with the State of New Jersey over acquiring state-owned land for the project. “If we lose this case ... this pipeline will, you know, not be built at least in anything like its current configuration,” Paul Clement, PennEast's attorney, told Justice Brett Kavanaugh in an oral argument before the court. The proposed $1 billion, 116-mile natural gas pipeline from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, would cross the Delaware River north of Milford, then parallel the river through western Hunterdon County before ending at Transco’s trans-continental pipeline near Pennington in Mercer County.