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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Environment. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementLate Friday afternoon, the state Department of Environmental Conservation denied the company’s second application for a permit to extend the pipeline from New Jersey via Raritan Bay through the southern portion of New York Bay. In an , Daniel Whitehead, director of the agency’s Division of Environmental Permits, cited the “apparent lack of need for the Project, as well as its increased impacts to water quality as compared to identified alternatives” to reject the proposal with prejudice, meaning the company cannot reapply. “That’s the end of the line,” said Suzanne Mattei, a former regional director at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, who campaigned against the project. “A denial with prejudice means the department has determined the environmental impacts of the pipeline are unacceptable and that the company has not given it reason to believe that it can make changes to its proposal that would convert it into an acceptable proposal.”But the rejection could spur new challenges from the Trump administration, which last year the state’s ability to use the federal Clean Water Act to block projects like the pipeline. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe called the decision “such a big victory” but warned that National Grid announced earlier Friday that it plans to resume construction on a smaller gas pipeline project in northern Brooklyn. “The fight continues,” she said. See GallerySuggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpWake up to the day's most important news.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Environment. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementLate Friday afternoon, the state Department of Environmental Conservation denied the company’s second application for a permit to extend the pipeline from New Jersey via Raritan Bay through the southern portion of New York Bay. In an , Daniel Whitehead, director of the agency’s Division of Environmental Permits, cited the “apparent lack of need for the Project, as well as its increased impacts to water quality as compared to identified alternatives” to reject the proposal with prejudice,...

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