Court cites Dr Seuss's The Lorax in rebuke to US Forest Service
by Guardian staff from Environment | The Guardian on (#452TJ)
Federal court in Virginia says officials were trusted to 'speak for the trees' as it tosses out pipeline permit
A federal court in the US has cited the classic Dr Seuss children's book The Lorax as it lambasted the US Forest Service for granting an energy company permission to build a natural gas pipeline across two national forests.
"We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues'," the three-judge panel of the fourth US circuit court of appeals in Virginia wrote this week as it threw out the permit.
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