ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Opponents of the Mountain Valley Pipeline are gearing up for another legal fight to try to stop the natural gas project. The Roanoke Times reports that environmental and community groups filed a petition with a federal appeals court.
The groups want the court to review a decision made earlier this month by the State Water Control Board that allowed the infrastructure to cross streams and wetlands.
The Sierra Club was among the groups that filed the petition with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Pipeline opponents say Mountain Valley should not be allowed to continue given its past track record of violating erosion and sediment regulations.
But Mountain Valley said those problems were largely caused by heavy rain in 2018 and have been corrected.
