A yearslong water pollution dispute between the state of Ohio and a natural gas pipeline developer may be one of the first environmental cases to be taken up by the Supreme Court at the start of its new term.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) is asking justices to back his efforts to sue the developer of the Rover pipeline, which spilled millions of gallons of diesel-laced fluid during construction in 2017 into Buckeye State waters.
Yost’s bid to the high court comes after a state court blocked his efforts to sue Rover Pipeline — jointly owned by Energy Transfer and Blackstone Energy Transition Partners.
The court could reach a decision on whether to grant the case as soon as the first week in October. Yost faces difficult odds; the justices only grant a small fraction of the petitions they receive each term.
