( August 14, 2023, 1:21 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 11 granted the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) motion to dismiss petitions for review by environmental groups of the approval and development of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), ruling that Congress has removed the Circuit Court’s jurisdiction through the passage of Section 324 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA). One judge in a concurrence called Section 324 “a blueprint for the construction of a natural gas pipeline by legislative fiat.”...