Crossing one of the items off Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s (MVP) regulatory checklist, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has issued a new Endangered Species Act review of the 2 million Dth/d, 303-mile Appalachian natural gas conduit.

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Late last week, the USFWS notified FERC that it had finished drafting an up-to-date Biological Opinion (BiOp) and Incidental Take Statement (ITS) for the pipeline, part of federal requirements to review potential impacts to protected species from project construction. 

The newly issued opinion takes into account “new data” and ensures “that we continue using the best available scientific and commercial information,” the USFWS wrote in a memo to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

MVP first received a BiOp and ITS in...