Opponents of a proposed $246-million compressor station on an existing Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. line must include the company in its appeal of the project’s exemption from a state environmental law, the New Jersey Supreme Court said April 11.
Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch and the New Jersey Highlands Coalition filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection for exempting the pipeline company, a unit of Kinder Morgan, from the requirements of a state law, the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act, protecting an area in northern New Jersey.