Jayni Hein
About Jayni Hein
Jayni Hein is the natural resources director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, where she also serves as an adjunct professor of law.
The pipeline setbacks reveal the perils of rushed agency approvals
On Monday, July 7, 2020, federal courts dealt major setbacks to the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. The two decisions came directly on the heels of an announcement that energy utilities were abandoning another high-profile project: the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would have crossed beneath the Appalachian Trail.