September 4, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke Energy wants to burn dirty, uneconomic coal for several more decades and add massive amounts of dangerous fracked gas in North and South Carolina, according to its latest filings with state regulators.
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August 29, 2019
Washington, DC -- Today, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler’s EPA released a proposal to ignore the vast majority of climate pollution from new oil and gas operations by eliminating safeguards that limit methane emissions. Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide during the time it remains in the atmosphere.
August 28, 2019
FERC requested that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reinitiate consultation on its Endangered Species Act permit for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline
August 27, 2019
A huge turnout of local residents showed up at the Rialto Theatre in Tacoma on Tuesday to express their opposition to Puget Sound Energy’s Tacoma LNG facility and tell the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) to deny the facility a necessary permit.
August 23, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY -- Today the Department of the Interior released a final management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, despite ongoing legal challenges to the Trump administration’s illegal actions to shrink the monument. The plan opens significant portions of Grand Staircase to dirty fuel development.
August 22, 2019
Ignoring concerns from local landowners, Tribes, and environmental groups, the Nebraska Supreme Court today affirmed the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) approval of a route for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through the state.
August 21, 2019
Last night, it was reported that Joe Balash, assistant Interior secretary for land and minerals and driver of the Trump administration’s rushed attempt to sell off the Arctic Refuge for drilling, will leave his job at the end of the month.
August 15, 2019
Hartford, CT -- Thirty-five Connecticut-based organizations delivered a letter today to Commissioner Katie Dykes of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) urging her to stop the construction of a recently approved fracked gas power plant in Killingly and impose a moratorium on all new gas and oil infrastructure until DEEP develops a plan for energy development that is consistent with the state’s climate goals.
August 15, 2019
Just days after a coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), the project’s developers have announced they are voluntarily suspending new construction activities in the habitats of endangered species
August 15, 2019
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) inspectors “found unsafe construction practices at work sites on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline”
August 14, 2019
LANSING, MI -- Earlier this week, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined twenty two other Attorneys General and seven local governments in a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s so-called “Affordable Clean Energy” rule, more appropriately called the Dirty Power Rule. Should it be enacted, the Dirty Power rule would gut the life-saving standards of the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis.
August 12, 2019
Conservation groups today launched a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)