In a 7–2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court decided on Monday that the U.S. Forest Service has the authority to allow the $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross under the historic Appalachian Trail in Nelson County, Virginia.
Proposed by Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion Energy Inc., the 42-inch-diameter pipeline will channel some 1.5 billion cubic feet of fracked gas per day, transporting it over 604 miles from the Marcellus Shale basin in West Virginia to Virginia and North Carolina.
