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Federal Appeals Court Issues Potential Snag for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

a portion of a pipeline
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On Tuesday, a federal appeals court issued a decision that created a roadblock for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service review of the pipeline. The federal review is known as an incidental take statement, and it is meant to set limits on killing threatened or endangered species during construction and operation. 

Pipeline opponents argued the incidental take statement was so vague that it was unenforceable, and the panel of judges agreed. Dominion Energy, the company behind the pipeline, said it would continue to move forward with the project. Host Frank Stasio talks to Richmond Times-Dispatch staff writer Robert Zullo about the decision and what it means for the future of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

 

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Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other WUNC shows including Tested and CREEP.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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