September 15, 2017: Today, NC Department of Environmental Quality announced it will require the ACP to provide detailed, site-specific information about water impacts and substantial data to evaluate the cumulative impacts to all four watersheds that the pipeline would cross through -- and only gives them 30 days to provide the information. ELP staff attorney Elly Benson and SELC submitted 45 pages of comments to the NC DEQ last month on the inadequacies of the water permit application. Sierra Club and SELC mobilized thousands of people to submit public comments, and hundreds to show up at public hearings along the proposed route.