Facing a legal challenge, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection last week asked a federal court to vacate the water-quality certification it issued in March for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
A day later, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality delayed its pending decision on water-quality certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, sending developers of the project, which is being led by Dominion Energy, a four-page request for more information.
“The project involves numerous stream crossings that have the potential to affect downstream water quality both temporarily during construction and permanently,” the North Carolina regulators wrote. “Your application and responses to the division provide thorough general descriptions of the plans for the project. However, more site-specific detail is necessary to ensure that downstream water quality is protected.”
