4rd Circuit Clown Judges Reject WV DEP Permit for MVP 2nd Time

Last week it was a miracle when the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (i.e. 4th Circuit clown judges) turned back an appeal of a permit issued by the Virginia State Water Control Board allowing Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to cross some 150 streams and wetlands in Southwest West Virginia (see 4th Circuit Judges Hand Rare Permit Victory to Mountain Valley Pipe). This week the three clowns reverted to their typical fossil fuel-hating form, rejecting (for a second time) a similar permit issued by the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection.

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