Vacated

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a district court ruling and unanimously agreed that pipeline owners — and not the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) — must pay to relocate oil, gas and products pipelines that cross the Houston Ship Channel.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a district court ruling and unanimously agreed that pipeline owners — and not the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) — must pay to relocate oil, gas and products pipelines that cross the Houston Ship Channel.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Thursday vacated and remanded a decision by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) approving a $1.4 billion rail project to carry coal from the Powder River Basin to power plants in the East and Midwest, saying the board failed to assess the environmental impact of increased coal burning.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Thursday vacated and remanded a decision by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) approving a $1.4 billion rail project to carry coal from the Powder River Basin to power plants in the East and Midwest, saying the board failed to assess the environmental impact of increased coal burning.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday vacated a certificate that gave ANR Pipeline the green light to build a lateral extension to provide natural gas to a planned power generation plant in Wisconsin.

FERC last week vacated its August order certificating El PasoNatural Gas Co.’s planned expansion of its 33-mile Bondad system, amove that the pipeline says puts the troubled project in anuncertain status.