Whether it moves by pipeline, by rail, or by tanker, tar sands and other oil is polluting, highly combustible, and dangerous to communities and our climate. In order to avert the worst of the climate crisis and protect our communities from devastating explosions and oil spills, we must stop the industry from building any new oil infrastructure. After more than a decade of advocacy, legal challenges, and organizing in partnership with local communities along the pipeline route and across the country, we successfully blocked the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Now we are continuing to apply those same tools to winning fights against other pipelines, oil train terminals, and oil export facilities across the country.
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Washington, DC – Today, the American Petroleum Institute (API) released a new 10-point plan laying out policy demands for expanded oil and gas production in response to current high fossil fuel prices and geopolitical instability. In response, Sierra Club Senior Director of Energy Campaigns Kelly Sheehan released the following statement:
The Kern County Superior Court issued a significant ruling that declared Kern County’s environmental review of its 2021 oil and gas ordinance violated the state’s bedrock environmental protection law by failing to address serious environmental harms.
An inspector from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District confirmed that two idled oil wells next to residential neighborhoods in Bakersfield are leaking massive volumes of methane. One well showed emissions at a minimum of 50,000 parts per million (ppm), the maximum level the inspector’s device could record, and another well at the same site is leaking methane at or over 20,000 ppm.
Today, House Democrats voted to pass the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act. Introduced by Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), the bill would crack down on oil and gas companies that are price-gouging consumers.
Six months after two rulemaking petitions to raise oil and gas bonds were voted through by the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board, petitioners are still calling on the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to produce reports that evaluate the petitions and provide recommendations on whether the EQB should approve the actions requested.
El Departamento del Interior de la administración Biden anunció anoche que no va a celebrar tres ventas programadas de arrendamientos de perforaciones costeras en el Golfo de México y las costas de Alaska.
This afternoon, the US Army Corps of Engineers will hold the first of six virtual public meetings to hear testimony on its review of Nationwide Permit 12, a blanket permit which allows fossil fuel pipelines to receive approval without public notice, environmental review, or opportunity for any public involvement.
La Oficina Federal de Gestión de Terrenos Anunció que reanudará el arrendamiento para explotaciones de petróleo y gas en terrenos públicos, violando una promesa electoral de acabar con esta práctica e incumpliendo la promesa de reducir las emisiones de efecto invernadero.
Late last Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) request to bore under 183 streams and wetlands at 120 locations in Virginia and West Virginia.
Washington, DC — Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mountain Valley Pipeline’s rehearing request on the court’s decision invalidating the biological opinion and incidental take statement issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act. The court originally found that the agency failed to adequately analyze the project's environmental context when assessing the detrimental impacts to the Roanoke logperch and the candy darter, a species on the brink of extinction.