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Clean Water

The Fourth Circuit halted construction of a pipeline in West Virginia in a Clean Water Act suit filed by the Sierra Club, finding that the pipeline project does not qualify to be governed by a nationwide permit. Rather, the pipeline company must go through the more arduous individual Clean Water Act permitting process.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit halted construction of a pipeline in West Virginia in a Clean Water Act suit filed by the Sierra Club, finding that the pipeline project does not qualify to be governed by a nationwide permit. Rather, the pipeline company must go through the more arduous individual Clean Water Act permitting process.

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