3 de noviembre de 2022
En vísperas de la COP 27, un nuevo reporte de la Campaña de Finanzas Libres de Combustibles Fósiles del Sierra Club analiza las promesas de cero emisiones del sector bancario durante dos años.
Whether it moves by pipeline, by rail, or by tanker, tar sands and other oil is polluting, highly combustible, and dangerous to communities and our climate. In order to avert the worst of the climate crisis and protect our communities from devastating explosions and oil spills, we must stop the industry from building any new oil infrastructure. After more than a decade of advocacy, legal challenges, and organizing in partnership with local communities along the pipeline route and across the country, we successfully blocked the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Now we are continuing to apply those same tools to winning fights against other pipelines, oil train terminals, and oil export facilities across the country.
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1 de noviembre de 2022
El Presidente Biden dijo anoche en un discurso que está dispuesto a trabajar con el Congreso para promulgar un impuesto a las ganancias de las compañías petroleras y gaseras.
October 21, 2022
Raleigh, NC – Yesterday, Mountain Valley Pipeline withdrew the pipeline’s proposed Southgate extension’s eminent domain proceedings in North Carolina – abandoning their efforts to secure the land necessary to build that section of the pipeline. Without this land, the Mountain Valley Southgate extension is unlikely to ever be built.
October 17, 2022
Clearwater County, MN – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that his office filed criminal charge against Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company behind the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, over an aquifer breach that happened during construction of the controversial pipeline.
October 17, 2022
Long Beach, CA – On Saturday, October 15, 2022 an oil slick was discovered off the coast of Alamitas Beach in Long Beach, California near the four THUMS islands – artificial islands formed by five oil companies to produce tens of thousands barrels of oil every day.
October 12, 2022
Columbus, OH - Last night, national and Ohio-based community organizations and environmental groups petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revoke Ohio Department of Natural Resources' primacy over Class II injection wells.
October 5, 2022
Today, the leaders of the OPEC+ energy cartel agreed to coordinated production cuts in an effort to raise oil and gas prices.
September 29, 2022
Columbus, OH - Today, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released a report that shows that a class of extremely toxic chemicals known as PFAS has been used in Ohio’s oil and gas wells since at least 2013. Due to gaps in Ohio’s disclosure rules, the full extent of the use of PFAS in oil and gas drilling and extraction may have been concealed from regulators and the public and as a result Ohio communities may unknowingly be exposed to highly hazardous substances.
September 15, 2022
Hammond, Ind. – BP has agreed to pay $2.75 million for penalties and environmental projects to resolve a 2019 lawsuit that charged the company’s more than century-old Whiting Refinery on the shore of Lake Michigan just south of Chicago with repeatedly viola
August 23, 2022
Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s request for four more years to build the pipeline, making this the second time that MVP has requested and received an extension of their certificate.