Opponents: Pipeline`s defeat `a testament to perseverance`
(World News USA)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richard Averitt and his wife have spent six years and more than six figures fighting to keep the Atlantic Coast Pipeline off their picturesque central Virginia property. In all that time, Averitt said he couldn`t recall meeting a single person who thought they would succeed. The massive interstate natural gas pipeline designed to start in West Virginia and run at least through Virginia and North Carolina was being developed by some of the country`s biggest and most politically powerful energy companies with support of lawmakers and governors from both parties, labor unions and the Trump administration. But on Sunday, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy announced they had...