The Appalachian Trail, which is hiked by more than a million people each year, is at the center of a Supreme Court case involving a proposed gas pipeline. Environmental groups are challenging the legality of a permit that would allow the pipeline.
The Appalachian Trail in central Virginia, near where the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cross. The trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and is hiked by more than a million people each year.The Appalachian Trail in central Virginia, near where the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cross. The trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and is hiked by more than a million people each year.
"That's not to say that there aren't direct impacts from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to the Appalachian Trail. There are," Downs says."Our analysis led us to the conclusion that the scope and range of those impacts did not rise to the level requiring opposition." Because the pipeline would cross the trail in a national forest, the Forest Service granted a permit to the pipeline company.
"If, in fact, the Appalachian Trail is part of the National Park System, then the Forest Service had no authority to authorize this tunneling underneath it for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline," Sachs says. Because it crosses so many different kinds of lands — federal, state, parks, forest, even some privately owned land — the Appalachian Trail Conservancy has relied on decades of precedent, policies and understanding.
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