Restricting Congress’s authority to exempt energy projects from judicial review would undermine the green transition.
Photo: Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Imagesto construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Tuesday in a setback for Joe Manchin and a win for environmental activists. That could be bad news for the climate.
But the Wilderness Society persisted with a legal challenge to the federal permit for a pipeline segment traversing the Jefferson National Forest, arguing that Congress had abused its authority when it stripped the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals of jurisdiction over challenges to the project. That court chose not to summarily dismiss the environmentalists’ case on Tuesday, instead ordering a temporary halt to pipeline construction while it reviews all relevant legal briefs.
construction of vast constellations of solar panels and wind turbines, transmission lines, geothermal plants, and, possibly, advanced nuclear facilities, among other things., “the largest solar facility currently online in the U.S. is capable of generating 585 megawatts. To meet even a middle-road renewable-energy scenario would require bringing online two new 400-megawatt solar-power facilities, each taking up at least 2,000 acres of land, every week for the next 30 years.
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