Doug Jackson is a senior press secretary for the Sierra Club's Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign.
Aug 15 2019
BRIDGEPORT, WV -- E&E News is reporting that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) inspectors “found unsafe construction practices at work sites on the Atlantic Coast…
Aug 12 2019
RICHMOND, Va. -- Conservation groups today launched a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The petition for review of the project…
Aug 9 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Donald Trump’s direction, announced a proposed rule that would drastically undermine the bedrock protections set forth in…
Aug 2 2019
RICHMOND, VA -- Today, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced they issued a stop work order for two miles of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline. According to a DEQ…
Aug 1 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, a coalition of water and environmental justice advocates released a study, conducted by the Applied Economics Clinic (AEC), showing Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (MVP) “has…
Jul 26 2019
RICHMOND, Va. -- Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals . A three-judge panel vacated the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) review of the ACP’s impacts related to the…
May 31 2019
TAMPA, FL -- An administrative law judge is allowing Tampa Electric Company (TECO) to move forward with plans to burn fracked gas and more coal at their Tampa-area Big Bend plant. The decision comes…
May 30 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Just a day after the Department of Energy referred to fracked gas as “freedom gas” and announced its intent to push a “regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom…
May 29 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a commitment to “spreading freedom gas throughout the world” and its intent to push a “regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S…
May 24 2019
ANNAPOLIS, MD -- Today, Maryland became the second state to ban expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam food containers, as Gov. Larry Hogan announced that he would allow to become law a bill that prohibits…