Ohio Natural Gas Pipeline Suit Tossed

A lawsuit challenging air pollution permits issued to Nexus Gas Transmission for two natural gas pipeline compressor stations must be dismissed, a divided federal appeals court ruled Feb. 21.

The three citizens groups suing over the permits failed to show they had standing to challenge them, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in an unpublished opinion.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency approved permits for two compressor stations along Nexus’s $2.1 billion, 257-mile natural gas pipeline system.

Protecting Air for Waterville, Neighbors Against NEXUS, and Sustainable Medina County sued. But these citizen groups don’t have standing ...