Morgan Caplan, morgan.caplan@sierraclub.org
Washington, DC – US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm wrote a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about the impact the Mountain Valley Pipeline project can have to support the US energy security and supply.
According to Patrick Grenter, director of the Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign:
“I am concerned to see this support from the Biden administration for a dirty, unnecessary pipeline that would undermine the US’ ability to meet our climate goals and contradict President Biden’s own climate pledges. There is nothing natural about the fracked gas that would be transported through the Mountain Valley Pipeline; locking us and our communities into decades of reliance on risky fossil fuels. What we should be focusing on is transitioning into clean sustainable energy that would maintain energy reliability and security.”
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