Health, environment, and community groups have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the Trump EPA’s rushed and unlawful final rule to delay protections against methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.
Washington, DC - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources is considering legislation proposed by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) called the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act,” or the SPEED Act. This bill will undermine the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law, in order to rush through infrastructure projects without adequate review or safeguards.
Today, Senate Republicans rejected a Congressional Review Act resolution introduced by Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that would have stopped the Trump administration from delaying the implementation of critical methane pollution standards. The courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have previously stopped other efforts by industry polluters and their political allies to block the EPA’s methane standards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Sierra Club and its partners are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to release vital information from Mountain Valley Pipeline’s biological assessment for the proposed Southgate extension.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued a Clean Water Act Section 401 certification for Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC’s proposed methane gas pipeline “Southgate,” rejecting concerns raised by North Carolina community members that the project would pollute streams and wetlands and harm protected aquatic species. More than 2,400 comments were submitted to the DEQ during the public input period.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Community members with Ridgeline Voices and other groups rallied at the TVA headquarters on Wednesday evening to protest the start of construction of the 122-mile-long Ridgeline Expansion Project, coinciding with the TVA board meeting. Ridgeline is a methane gas pipeline that threatens water quality and wildlife habitat in hundreds of east and middle Tennessee streams and allows a proposed 1,550-megawatt gas plant to fuel devastating climate change.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released an Environmental Assessment for the methane gas pipeline Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, proposed for Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. The project is meant to move over 1.5 million dekatherms per day of gas and is the largest expansion of gas infrastructure currently proposed in the Southeast. The assessment claims to analyze the environmental impacts of the SSEP’s multiple sections of pipeline, massive gas compressor station expansions and additional infrastructure modifications.
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that will delay implementation of the agency’s critical Clean Air Act protection against methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last night, the Trump Administration approved the final export authorization for the dangerous, pollution-causing Venture Global’s liquefied methane gas export project, CP2 LNG.
WASHINGTON – A coalition of local fisherfolk, community members and leaders, and public interest organizations filed their opening brief this week in the U.S. Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit challenging FERC’s approval of Virginia-based Venture Global’s massive Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and feeder pipeline in southwest Louisiana. The brief argues, among other things, that FERC failed to perform the core balancing the Natural Gas Act requires—downplaying or evading significant, concrete harms to local industry, communities, and air quality.
The Senate failed to advance a resolution, introduced by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM), that would repeal the sham energy emergency executive order signed by Donald Trump. The executive order has been used as an excuse by the Trump administration to give handouts to Big Oil and Gas executives while attacking affordable, clean energy, raising consumer costs and killing jobs in the process.
A report from the Washington Post yesterday, detailed the lengths to which the Trump administration is catering to fossil fuel companies, offering “concierge, white glove” service for executives looking to circumvent environmental and safety reviews. This news comes at a time when Donald Trump is blocking more affordable, clean energy options, like wind and solar, in the name of a sham energy emergency.