WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of environmentalist arguments that an appeals court was right to invalidate a U.S. Forest Service permit needed for a planned $8 billion natural gas pipeline.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline proposed by Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion Energy Inc. is supposed to run 604.5 miles, bringing fracked natural gas from the Marcellus Shale basin in West Virginia to Virginia and North Carolina. With a diameter of 42 inches, the pipeline would have a capacity of up to 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day.
