March 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Trump Administration approved an extension of the construction deadline for the liquefied methane gas export project Golden Pass LNG.
February 26, 2025
Washington, DC - Today, Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) to end the Trump executive order to declare a sham energy “emergency.” The Trump administration is seeking to disregard clean air and water safeguards to fast-track permits for fossil fuel development, despite the fact that the United States is already the largest oil producer and gas exporter in the world. At the same time, the executive order hampers America’s ability to generate clean, renewable energy.
February 26, 2025
Washington, DC - Today, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal an EPA rule implementing the Methane Emissions Reduction Program’s waste emissions charge. Congress included this critical program in the Inflation Reduction Act to help protect our families and communities from harmful oil and gas pollution. The charge is a commonsense measure to cut excessive methane emissions from corporations that are the largest polluters, secure American energy, and create jobs.
February 19, 2025
Washington, DC - A number of federal agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, are beginning to detail plans to fast-track unnecessary, dirty energy infrastructure projects without sufficient review. Agencies were directed to complete reports within 30 days by Donald Trump’s executive order declaring an energy emergency. Projects that could be rushed through without proper review range from LNG export facilities along the Gulf Coast that harm local communities and drive up consumer energy prices to highly controversial pipelines like Line 5, which ships Canadian oil through the Great…
February 3, 2025
Washington, DC - Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm Chris Wright as the Secretary of the Department of Energy. Wright is an outspoken critic of policies aimed at curbing climate change and the transition to renewable energy sources. He is the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, a leading oil and fracked gas company.
January 22, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC -- After months of requests from state and local officials, as well as dozens of advocacy organizations, asking for a detailed Environmental Impact Statement for Transco's proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project in Virginia and North Carolina, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice stating that it would instead prepare a less comprehensive analysis that falls far short of what community advocates have argued is required.
January 17, 2025
Today, more than 150 environmental organizations sent a letter to President Biden and Secretary Granholm thanking them for releasing the final Department of Energy (DOE) studies on the impacts of liquefied methane gas (LNG) exports. Given scientific conclusions, the groups urge the Biden administration to use this analysis to reject pending LNG export authorizations as not in the public interest.
January 21, 2025
Last week, U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) alongside U.S. Representative August Pfluger (R-TX-11) introduced companion bills to repeal the Waste Emission Charge of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program, a critical program created by the Inflation Reduction Act that will help protect our families and communities from harmful oil and gas pollution. The charge is a commonsense measure to cut excessive methane emissions from corporations that are the largest polluters, secure American energy, and create jobs.
January 20, 2025
Today, Donald Trump announced his intention to declare an “energy emergency,” despite the fact that the United States is the largest oil and gas producer in the world.
January 15, 2025
Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Chris Wright, an outspoken critic of policies aimed at curbing climate change and the transition to renewable energy sources, to run the Department of Energy. Wright is the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, a leading oil and fracked gas company.