November 30, 2018
Governor Rick Scott and the rest of the Florida Power Plant Siting Board voted unanimously to approve the expansion of fracked gas burning at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) Dania Beach Plant
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November 20, 2018
As the public comment period closes tomorrow on the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) proposed fracked gas facility in the Port of Tacoma, thousands of Washington residents and a coalition of advocacy organizations are raising serious concerns about the project’s climate impact.
November 19, 2018
Over 40 landowners and community members gathered in Gibsonville, NC Saturday to determine a strategy for stopping the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate extension.
November 15, 2018
Gov. Ralph Northam reportedly informed two members of the State Air Pollution Control Board that they would soon be replaced
November 15, 2018
90% of all gas pipeline fires and explosions draw no financial penalty for the corporations responsible
November 13, 2018
(Kalama, WA) November 13, 2018—Today, a report written by the company proposing the world’s largest fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery was released by the Port of Kalama and Cowlitz County, WA. The proposed fossil fuel refinery is controversial because of the impacts on both local residents’ health and our climate. Despite the company’s claim that the refinery could result in a climate benefit, the refinery would consume a stunning amount of fracked gas—one-third as much gas as the entire state of Washington.
October 31, 2018
Community groups and advocates hand-delivered over 10,000 citizen protest comments to the Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico state office in snowy Santa Fe today in opposition to an oil and gas lease sale scheduled for December that would auction off close to 100,000 acres of public lands in New Mexico for industrialized fracking.
October 5, 2018
Today, at the request of a coalition of clean water advocates including the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Army Corps of Engineers suspended a permit that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must have in order to build through waterways in Virginia.
October 2, 2018
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers under the Clean Water Act for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).
October 2, 2018
Gov. Rick Scott, in his role as head of the Florida Power Plant Siting Board, moved a controversial vote to after the election as he seeks a seat in the United States Senate.
September 25, 2018
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a stay of the National Forest Service decisions allowing Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction.
September 17, 2018
The National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have issued new permits for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, according to Atlantic’s filings with FERC today.