Court rejects FERC approval of $1 billion Williams Cos. project along Atlantic coast

 

 

Tulsa’s Williams Cos. suffered a legal setback in its $1 billion project to provide more natural gas in five mid-Atlantic states where it planned to serve 3 million customers.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday voided Williams’ Regional Energy Access expansion project after it had been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The project had been challenged by six environmental groups and eight U.S. states who claimed FERC’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious.”

Reuters reported Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs wrote for a three-judge panel, whose members were judicially appointed by Democratic presidents, that FERC should have better assessed the risk of significant greenhouse gas emissions, and how the Williams unit might reduce them.

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