By Timothy P. Duggan As local environmental challenges are always on the horizon, it’s important to examine how New Jersey homeowners defeated the PennEast Pipeline. Notably, the PennEast Pipeline Company made the decision to stop developing a proposed 116-mile natural gas pipeline from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, to Mercer County, New Jersey, despite its earlier U.S. Supreme Court victory. PennEast began the process of building the pipeline years ago by filing an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for th…