Virginia

The coal-backed Ohio Valley Jobs Alliance (OVJA) has failed in another effort to stop the construction of a proposed natural gas-fired power plant in West Virginia after the state Supreme Court affirmed the facility’s siting permit.

Denbury Resources Inc. has clinched a merger agreement with Eagle Ford Shale pure-play Penn Virginia Corp., a transaction valued at $1.7 billion plus debt that would build a substantial foothold in South Texas.

Another U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office has suspended authorization for Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to cross dozens more streams and wetlands in West Virginia, citing a federal appeals court decision earlier this month that vacated a key permit.

Brushing off calls from environmentalists to halt construction, FERC on Tuesday authorized Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (ACP) to move forward with tree clearing at a compressor station site in Buckingham County, VA.

Environmental groups are stepping up their calls for FERC to stop all construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last month stayed federal authorizations allowing the project to work in two national forests.

Environmental groups are stepping up their calls for FERC to stop all construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last month stayed federal authorizations allowing the project to work in two national forests.

In yet another blow for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday suspended authorization for the project to cross hundreds of streams and wetlands in Virginia, citing a recent decision from a federal appeals court that vacated a key permit.

The same day it OK’d the startup of Atlantic Sunrise, FERC authorized service on another Appalachian takeaway expansion aimed at serving the East Coast, Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s WB XPress Project.

President Trump intends to nominate Bernard McNamee, who is currently executive director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Policy, to fill the vacant fifth seat at FERC, the White House said Wednesday.