Sierra Club v. FERC

  1. March 29, 2024

    DC Circ. Nixes Challenges To Gas Industry Projects

    Federal energy regulators had broad discretion to approve "good cause" construction deadline extensions for a gas pipeline across New York state and a Texas Gulf Coast gas terminal expansion, according to a D.C. Circuit panel opinion on Friday that rejected conservation groups' challenges to the projects.

  2. September 18, 2023

    DC Circ. Grills Sierra Club On FERC Gas Extension Challenges

    A skeptical D.C. Circuit panel probed the Sierra Club's arguments on Monday in two lawsuits aiming to overturn multi-year extensions federal regulators' granted to construction deadlines for a New York gas pipeline and a gas export terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast.

  3. February 22, 2023

    Pipeline Co. Says FERC Construction Extension Was Proper

    A deadline extension for a 99-mile natural gas pipeline through New York state is necessary precisely because the environmental group challenging it in the D.C. Circuit has delayed construction through years of lawsuits, developer National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. and an industry trade group told the appeals court.

  4. February 15, 2023

    FERC Defends Deadline Extension For NY Pipeline Project

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday told the D.C. Circuit it was well within its authority to extend a construction deadline for the 99-mile Northern Access Project pipeline in New York and Pennsylvania and that a landmark Empire State climate law has no bearing on its decision.

  5. December 19, 2022

    Sierra Club Says Feds Ignored NY Climate Law In Pipeline OK

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wrongly extended a deadline to build a 99-mile natural gas pipeline without addressing the climate goals of a 2019 New York law setting greenhouse emissions limits, the Sierra Club has told the D.C. Circuit.