New York AG Filed Brief in Opposition to Supreme Court Hearing Constitution Pipeline Challenge

MARCH 1, 2018

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a brief in opposition to the Supreme Court hearing a challenge brought by Constitution Pipeline Company to the denial of the company’s state water quality certification application by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). NYSDEC denied the company’s application under section 401 of the Clean Water Act to build a natural gas pipeline that would have impacted more than 250 streams and more than 80 acres of wetlands. Constitution Pipeline company filed a petition for writ of certiorari for the Supreme Court to hear its challenge after the Second Circuit sided with the New York Attorney General in dismissing the company’s challenge of NYSDEC’s denial of the state water quality certification application.