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A federal court’s recent decision to vacate approval of a natural gas pipeline expansion in the Northeast will be disruptive to customers in the region, FERC Chairman Willie Phillips said Thursday.

Environmental groups are continuing to pressure LNG export facility and pipeline developers through federal appeals courts as lawsuits seeking to repeal authorizations stack up.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has handed opponents of the Nexus Gas Transmission system a partial victory in a key decision directing FERC to reconsider its approval for the pipeline that could have implications for infrastructure serving liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities.

The status of a proposed natural gas pipeline in the Southeast appears more uncertain, after a federal appeals court Wednesday denied a request from FERC and the pipeline sponsors to reverse its ruling last year to vacate the project's permits.

Capping a chaotic three days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia late Wednesday denied an emergency motion to stay FERC’s certificate for the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. (Transco) Atlantic Sunrise expansion, allowing construction to immediately resume.