An effort to get the nation’s highest court to intervene on behalf of the Spire STL Pipeline in a legal battle over alleged flaws in the natural gas conduit’s FERC certificate has fallen short.

Spire STL pipeline

Earlier this month, Spire Missouri Inc. asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of a lower court ruling that vacated Spire STL’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission certificate and put its operation status in limbo. Late last week, the high court denied Spire’s application for a stay.

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last year brought a court challenge against FERC’s Spire STL decision, which eventually led to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit ruling vacating the 65-mile, 400,000 Dth/d Midwest pipeline’s 2018 certificate.

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