Divided FERC rejects climate change significance in re-approving Sabal Trail pipeline

Published March 15, 2018 2:13pm ET



A divided Federal Energy Regulatory Commission late Wednesday reissued its approval of the Sabal Trail pipeline, rejecting a ruling by a federal appeals court that it should better account for the impacts to climate change from the project.

In August, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled FERC did not properly evaluate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions from the natural gas shipped by the pipeline, in issuing a prior approval of the project.

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