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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear PennEast Case Versus New Jersey in Big Win for Natural Gas Project The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC’s case against New Jersey, which has stopped the natural gas project from condemning state-owned land.  The high court on Wednesday granted PennEast’s petition in a win for the project, which has been under development for more than five years. The pipeline is one of the last major greenfield infrastructure projects still pending to move Appalachian Basin natural gas to other markets. The 120-mile system would move 1 Bcf/...

Environmental Protection Agency PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied an attempt from the Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, over the implementation of a specific tenet of the Clean Water Act. On June 1, the EPA issued a Final Rule which largely changed its regulations in implementing Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, also published in the Federal Register on July 13. Section 401 of the Clean Water Act gives each state and Native American tribe an important but limited say in the licensing of feder...