Supreme Court rules that New Jersey can't block pipeline from crossing conservation lands

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for a pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, ruling that PennEast Pipeline Company, the project’s developer, may exercise the federal government’s power of eminent domain to condemn land owned by New Jersey.

The vote was 5 to 4. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, said the government was entitled to delegate its power of eminent domain to private parties even where state property is at issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/us/supreme-court-pipeline-new-jersey-land-seizure.html