The Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction blocking further construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s pork project, allowing work to continue on the project while legal battles proceed, CNN reports. No reason was listed in the one-paragraph order.
The 300-mile pipeline would transport shale gas from West Virginia to processing sites in southern Virginia. Approving the pipeline was a key concession to get Manchin’s vote to raise the debt ceiling in June.