July 14, 2020
Daelim Chemical USA LLC announced they will not move forward with their proposed PTT Global Chemical ethane cracker project
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July 14, 2020
San Francisco—Despite conclusive evidence that biogas and synthetic gas are too costly, limited, and environmentally risky to displace current gas demand, gas utilities and trade associations are touting them as a climate solution. This remarketing of biogas and synthetic gas is an effort designed to mislead stakeholders and stall the community-led transition from gas-burning to efficient all-electric buildings, which represents an existential crisis for the industry.
July 5, 2020
Today, following years of legal and community opposition, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy announced they are cancelling construction of their 600-mile, $8 billion fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
June 30, 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for DC Circuit issued ruled against FERC's controversial practice of issuing tolling orders. The decision has major implications for how fracked gas pipelines get approved and built in the US
June 25, 2020
Pa. A.G. Josh Shapiro announced the results of a grand jury report on the harms of fracking, and had scathing words for fracking companies and Pa.'s DEP.
June 21, 2020
The Sierra Club filed a motion for preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the Permian Highway Pipeline. In late April, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit arguing that the Army Corps failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it approved the project without first conducting the required analysis of environmental impacts, providing for public participation, or considering alternative routes.
June 18, 2020
FERC conditionally approved MVP’s request to extend its controversial fracked gas pipeline into North Carolina
June 15, 2020
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that limited the U.S. Forest Service’s authority to issue a permit to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)
June 1, 2020
The EPA issued a final rule that illegally scraps section 401 of the Clean Water Act
May 27, 2020
Washington, DC -- Today, southern Oregon organizations filed a lawsuit challenging Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline. FERC issued its approval in March, conditioned on the project qualifying for critical permits from the state of Oregon. Three of those permits have already been denied or withdrawn.
May 21, 2020
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] -- Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced that it would deny all requests for rehearing for the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal. The State of Oregon, multiple Tribal governments, landowners impacted by eminent domain, fishers and crabbers, and environmental groups had all requested FERC revisit its ruling on the widely-opposed project. FERC Commissioner Richard Glick was the lone dissent, pointing to climate, private property concerns, and the low chance that this project will ever be built.
May 6, 2020
Today, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) approved a permit for air pollution from the Texas LNG fracked gas export facility. Texas LNG is one of three fracked gas export terminals proposed for the Rio Grande Valley, the cumulative impacts of which could be devastating for local communities