The project still does not have those approvals, but FERC has determined that “the protection of the environment along the project’s right-of-way is best served” by allow work to resume. Pipeline opponents blasted the decision. “It inflicts yet more environmental and economic harms on our communities. Both have said that neither the MVP nor the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dominion Energy’s larger project planned to carve through West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina and also currently halted by FERC, are in the public interest. “Ultimately, it is the commission’s responsibility to ensure the project is in the public interest.”FERC order on Mountain Valley Pipeline.