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.
(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.
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.
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).
Despite acknowledging the severe climate threat posed by burning fossil fuels, an administrative law judge recommended today to allow FPL to expand its fracked gas-burning operations in Dania Beach
This weekend, Piedmont Natural Gas announced plans to construct and operate a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility. The massive facility would cover 50 acres in Robeson County, North Carolina and store 1 billion cubic feet of fracked gas.
As the Ohio House of Representatives prepares to vote tomorrow morning on a bill that would allow oil and gas waste, including fracking fluids, to be sold as a “commodity,” a newly released report reveals that this waste contains toxic levels of radioactive materials.
Local public health and environmental advocacy groups vow to continue to fight a decision allowing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to move forward next to Bella Romero Academy.
Today, Ohio Governor John Kasich announced a new partner for a proposed ethane cracker plant in Belmont County. Ethane crackers are known to release toxic air pollution including cancer-causing benzene and other pollutants. Building out petrochemical plants would also drive an increase in fracking, and the increased air and water pollution that comes with it.
NRG to close multiple gas plants in California NRG Energy will retire three gas-fired power plants in Rancho Cucamonga (Etiwanda), Oxnard (Ormond Beach) and Goleta (Ellwood). The decision to close these plants aligns with a trend that’s sweeping across California-- gas plants aren’t being built or retiring due to community opposition and the growth of clean energy in the state. Among these plants is Etiwanda, which will close on June 1, 2018.