US District Court Throws Out ACP/MVP Eminent Domain Case

We've lost track of how many lawsuits have been filed by anti-fossil fuel groups against EQT Midstream's Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), and Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Among the flood of never-ending lawsuits was a lawsuit against both pipelines from a group of 50 or so landowners who tried to overturn the constitutional use of eminent domain to force hold-out landowners to accept the pipeline. The landowners tried to court-shop and find a court to aide them in their cause. Last Friday the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected that effort.

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