New York -- Today, Governor Hochul’s Department of Environmental Conservation rejected permits for the Astoria NRG fracked gas plant, shutting the project down and keeping polluting fossil fuels out of Astoria, Queens. The decision is a victory for the No Astoria NRG Plant Coalition and broader state grassroots climate movement, who have been relentlessly organizing against the project for years. Today’s decision tees up similar outcomes in the ongoing permitting processes of other polluting projects currently moving forward including the Gowanus repowering in Brooklyn. The members of the No Astoria NRG Plant Coalition applaud the decision.
A coalition of environmental groups and clean water advocates filed a lawsuit late yesterday challenging permits for the Mountaineer Storage Hub, a proposed fracked gas liquids storage facility that would support a broader petrochemical buildout in the Ohio River Valley.
Thousands of people are in Washington, DC this week demanding that President Biden declare a climate emergency and stop fossil fuel projects. The People vs.
This week, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed 46 counts of environmental crimes against Energy Transfer for violations during their construction of the Mariner East 2 Pipeline. A grand jury added two more counts based on a criminal referral from the Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection. The charges stem from the company’s releasing industrial waste at 22 sites across the state that contaminated a number of streams and rivers.
Harrisburg, PA -- Today, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced a slew of criminal charges against Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Mariner East II pipeline and other controversial projects including Dakota Access.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) told reporters he supported including gas plants in the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP) that is part of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act. Sierra Club opposes government investment in polluting gas plants, which would undermine the climate and public health benefits of the program while saddling consumers with higher energy costs.
Today the developers of the controversial PennEast pipeline project announced they were cancelling the project after being denied necessary water quality permits.
PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC’s 116-mile pipeline would have shipped fracked Marcellus Shale gas from Northeast Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River to New Jersey, where it would likely be sold to be burned in foreign countries.
News broke earlier this week that the Final Investment Decision (FID) for two controversial fracked gas export projects proposed for the Gulf Coast, Texas LNG in Brownsville, Texas and Magnolia LNG in Lake Charles, Louisiana, have been significantly delayed due to global insecurity in the fracked gas market.
Albany, NY — Today, 65 organizations from across New York State sent a letter urging Governor Kathy Hochul to reject a petition filed by the Independent Power Producers of New York (IPPNY), the NYS AFL-CIO, and BTC with the Public Service Commission that calls for adding to the State’s Clean Energy Standard a new tier of non-renewable “zero-emitting” electric generating resources such as hydrogen, nuclear, biogas, and new gas plants with carbon capture and storage.
Washington, D.C. - Today President Joe Biden and leaders from the European Union committed to reduce methane pollution by 30 percent by 2030, a positive near-term step toward combating the climate crisis. However, much more can and must be done to reduce these and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.
BRIDGE CITY, TX -- Earlier this week, the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club submitted public comments on behalf of more than four hundred Texans opposing Entergy’s plans for its Orange County Advanced Power Station.
Today, national and Pennsylvania-based environmental groups sent petitions urging the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) to adopt full-cost bonding for conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells.