Groups Launch New Constitutional Suit To Block FERC's Gas Approvals

Struggling to block natural gas infrastructure projects due to their potential adverse climate impacts, environmentalists have launched a new legal strategy charging that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) review process for the PennEast Pipeline Project and other infrastructure approvals creates a “constitutionally fatal structural bias” in violation of individuals' due process rights. In a March 2 complaint in Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. FERC , filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, environmentalists...