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Tag: NEPA compliance
Legal Showdown Over Pipeline Expansion: Environmental Groups Sue the EPA, Testing the Bounds of Cooperative Federalism
On May 23, 2025, a coalition of leading environmental organizations—including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and the Center for Biological Diversity—filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging its approval of the Calumet–Midwest Pipeline Expansion Project (hereafter “Calumet Expansion”). The expansion would add 85 miles of new 42-inch trunkline and uprate three compressor stations, traversing sensitive wetlands in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and the Illinois River watershed. The plaintiffs argue that the agency violated its statutory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as the cooperative-federalism principles enshrined in the CWA’s Section 401 certification process.