The U.S. Supreme Court backed on Tuesday a pipeline development consortium in its legal battle with the state of New Jersey over eminent domain for a planned natural gas pipeline between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Supreme Court was hearing over the last two months arguments in a landmark lawsuit that could have dramatically changed the fate of pipeline projects if the court had sided with the state of New Jersey. But it did not. New Jersey argued that the PennEast Pipeline Company, a consortium including Enbridge, could not use eminent domain to seize land for the project’s construction. Taking the case to the Supreme Court, PennEast Pipeline Company was looking to overturn a federal appeals court ruling from 2019, which said that PennEast could not use eminent domain to seize land owned by the state of New Jersey for pipeline construction. The federal appeals court argued in 2019 […]