Legal Opinion
Delaware Riverkeeper Network v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 23, 2017No. 17-1506PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SMITH, Chief Judge.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. (“Tennessee Gas”) submitted applications to several federal and state agencies seeking approval to build an interstate pipeline project. One such agency is the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1 which administers certain provisions of the Clean Water Act. The Corps issued a permit approving the project. The petitioners, Maya van Rossum and Delaware Riverkeeper Network (collectively, “Riverkeeper”), challenge that decision on the ground that the Corps acted arbitrarily and capriciously by rejecting a “compression”…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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