Lawsuit
The lawsuit itself is considered strange since climate change is the reason. The coal industry has been considered a major player in carbon emissions.
Natural gas was the option to cut back on coal usage. Despite this being a fact, concerns still ran high about the use of natural gas.
Utility companies require more fuel to run efficiently. Their fuel of choice was natural gas to replace coal.
The pipeline is an estimated distance of 685 miles. The work on the pipeline began in December 2016.
Duke Energy, NextEra Energy and Spectra Energy are companies backing the project. They think it is a big setback for the project.
If the power plants cannot acquire more fuels, then they will continue to burn coal. Judge Brown said they need another alternative.
She said “the much more likely result is that they would simply choose another alternativE. Albeit a much more inconvenient, expensive, and possibly environmentally-harmful alternative—in response to a denial of a certificate by FERC.”
