Virginia’s attorney general asks Supreme Court to block Duke Energy-backed pipeline

Virginia’s attorney general wants the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a decision striking down a permit to let the Atlantic Coast Pipeline cross the Appalachian Trail in a brief that also challenges the need for the pipeline.

Attorney General Mark Herring filed an amicus brief in the appeal from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that the Supreme Court is slated to hear next month. And he goes beyond the permit question at issue in the appeal to attack outright the $7.8 billion joint venture by…

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