Why does significant news – bad or good – regarding the Mountain Valley Pipeline and/or Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) always seem to come on Friday evenings? In this case, it’s good news regarding the ACP, albeit not the ultimate good news of this idiotic/misbegotten project being canceled. As the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports: “One week after the federal government tapped the brakes on the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made the same decision about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, ordering a stop-work order Friday evening. In a letter to Dominion Energy, the company building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, FERC ordered a halt to construction of the 600-mile-long, $5.5 billion project.”  Read more at Blue Virginia

Highlights:  The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals finally released its opinion [August 6, 2018] on the Order the Court issued May 15 that vacated the Fish and Wildlife Service’s biological opinion on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Also, that opinion vacates the National Park Service Right-of-Way Permit related to the drilling under the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Good coverage from Emily Hollingsworth at the Farmville Herald: 

Stop work order issued for ACP

Stop work order issued for ACP – Farmville Herald 8-14-18