The Supreme Court on Thursday vacated judicial stays on the Mountain Valley Pipeline, siding with the developers of the 303-mile natural gas pipeline and allowing construction to proceed.

The order vacates two stays of construction handed down earlier this month by the Fourth Circuit Court. Pipeline developers filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in response, arguing the stays violated the text of the debt ceiling bill, which shielded the project from further legal challenges by ordering the approval of all remaining permits necessary to finish the pipeline and limiting judicial review of those permits to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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