What’s a Significant Impact? Fifth Circuit Rules Pipeline Can Go Forward

In the latest development in the eternal struggle between environmental groups and hydrocarbon pipeline developers, the Fifth Circuit recently discarded an injunction that was preventing construction of a pipeline through the Atchafalaya Basin, home of the country’s largest river swamp. The pipeline is meant to connect the controversial Dakota Access pipeline to refineries and export terminals in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

In order to construct the pipeline, Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC had to secure a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In order …

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