Category: Pipeline

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) last week approved the required permits for the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline project.

The approval paves the way for the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company to build a new, 37-mile addition to the Williams Transco natural fracked gas pipeline system, which runs from Texas through Pennsylvania into parts of Western New York. The new addition will bring gas into New Jersey and downstate New York, including Brooklyn, Queens, …

Late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in New Jersey Conversation Foundation, et al. v. FERC, unanimously vacated the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval of the Transcontinental (Transco) Gas Pipe Line Company Regional Energy Access Expansion Project.

The roughly $950 million gas pipeline project involves the construction and operation of over 36 miles of new natural gas pipeline facilities built by a Williams Co. subsidiary. In addition to the pipeline, the project called for the …

On July 27, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a three sentence order that vacated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s orders staying the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The pipeline is being built through Virginia and West Virginia and is being constructed to provide additional natural gas for winter in the South and Mid-Atlantic. Several environmental groups oppose this pipeline because they allege that endangered fish species would be harmed by the construction.   

The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, Pub.L.No. 118-5, 137 …