The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for construction of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline to proceed granting an emergency request from backers of the project that has the support of Congress and the Biden administration . The order came as the White House announced new actions to combat climatefueled extreme heat which has been baking cities in the Southwest for weeks before moving Northeast on Thursday . Backers of the pipeline say that if they cannot resume operations by July they will be unable to put the pipeline into service by the end of the year . The milelong pipeline would transport gas from West Virginias Marcellus and Utica shale areas to Virginia . The pipeline would cross waterways and federal national forest lands which is why it went through a complex environmental permitting process and led to multiple lawsuits . Environmental groups such as the Wilderness Society argued that Congress had exceeded its authority in passing the law . The court offered no extensive reasoning and no dissents were noted. Backers will ask the court to dismiss appeals brought by the groups and the groups are expected to argue that Section is unconstitutional . A hearing in the case is currently scheduled for Thursday at the Richmond based appeals court is scheduled for . Thursday . A . hearing in . Thursday at . the . Richmond-based appeals court . The hearing is currently . scheduled for July at the Richmond based based appeals Court is . scheduled to Thursday at The Richmond based Appeals court. A hearing is scheduled to be scheduled for 2013 at the . court . for Thursday . The Richmond-Based appeals court. The hearing was scheduled for the hearing . A Hearing is scheduled . A meeting for Thursday. A meeting is scheduled at the. Richmond based appeal is currently for Thursday in the . Hampton-based appeal is scheduled. for Thursday and a hearing is expected to
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