Earlier this week, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. 
The Court did so with a two-sentence order stating that an opinion would follow. The order was issued hours after oral argument. Why the hurry?
It could be that, as reported by Bloomberg (subscription required), the plaintiffs had somehow learned of “a call in which pipeline officials told investors they would quickly trench through streams ‘before anything is challenged.’”
Ever since Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses,… More