WASHINGTON (CN) — A D.C. Circuit panel seemed wary of an environmental challenge to a twin liquefied natural gas pipeline project near Louisiana’s Gulf Coast during oral arguments on Tuesday. The suit ...

On September 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit) issued Sierra Club v. FERC, [1] which upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) authorization of a ...

The court declined to toss out authorization for the project in light of a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.

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Advocacy groups say a FERC-approved project would account for half of New Jersey’s emissions by 2050 — the year it plans to switch to 100 percent clean energy. An appeals court on Friday grappled with ...

On November 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) denied petitions challenging FERC’s approval of recent changes to the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s ...

The D.C. Circuit said the federal government had shown that pepper spray can cause "serious bodily injury" and that the three men used it that way, therefore an enhancement was properly applied to the ...

"Part of what's at stake in the case is what feels like a rather reckless treatment of an institution," Judge Cornelia T.L. Pillard said of the Trump administration's efforts to downsize the Consumer ...