Dossier
Mountain Valley Pipeline
Coverage of Mountain Valley Pipeline in the Nexus archive.
- Environmental groups sue feds over blanket permit to fast-track pipelines
Environmental groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a nationwide permit that fast-tracks oil and gas pipeline approvals without required environmental reviews under the Clean Water Act. The permit, used for projects like the Mountain Valley and Dakota Access pipelines, allows developers to bypass comprehensive reviews by treating large projects as multiple smaller ones.