(United States Third Circuit) - Rejected challenges to a natural gas pipeline project but remanded on one issue. Local governments and an environmental organization argued that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission acted arbitrarily and capriciously in approving a proposed interstate pipeline expansion,but the Third Circuit rejected this argument. However, on a separate issue, and the panel remanded to the novel Jersey Department of Environmental Protection with instructions to reconsider the petitioners' request for an adjudicatory hearing.
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