Morgan Caplan is an Associate Press Secretary with the Sierra Club's Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign. She is based in Washington, DC.
Harrisburg, PA - Yesterday, House Bill 2644 became law as part of a budget deal Governor Wolf struck with the General Assembly. This bill eliminates the Environmental Quality Board’s (EQB) authority…
Washington, DC -- Today, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected environmental groups' challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline’s proposed…
Kern County, CA – The Kern County Superior Court issued a significant ruling that declared Kern County’s environmental review of its 2021 oil and gas ordinance violated the state’s bedrock…
Bakersfield, CA — An inspector from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District confirmed that two idled oil wells next to residential neighborhoods in Bakersfield are leaking massive…
Harrisburg, PA - Six months after two rulemaking petitions to raise oil and gas bonds were voted through by the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board, petitioners are still calling on the…
Washington, DC — Late last Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) request to bore under 183 streams and wetlands at 120 locations…
Washington, DC — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule that undermines a vital mechanism states and Tribes use to protect their clean water under Section 401 of the Clean Water…
Washington, DC — Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mountain Valley Pipeline’s rehearing request on the court’s decision invalidating the biological opinion and incidental take…
RICHMOND, Virginia — Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit granted Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC’s motion to dismiss its appeal of the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board’s…
WYALUSING, PA (March 21, 2022) - PennFuture, Clean Air Council, and Sierra Club obtained a settlement on March 18 that halts construction of the proposed Bradford County Real Estate Partners (BCREP)…