In a breakthrough for environmentalists on Friday, a federal appeals court struck down two major decisions that would have allowed a natural gas pipeline to slice through Jefferson National Forest.
The project would route a 300-mile natural gas pipeline, currently under construction, through Jefferson National Forest near the Virginia-West Virginia border. The woodlands that would be impacted are in Giles and Montgomery counties in Virginia and Monroe County in West Virginia. The pipeline’s route through the national forest will also take it under the Appalachian Trail atop Peters Mountain. ...
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