July 18, 2022
Yesterday, House Bill 2644 became law as part of a budget deal Governor Wolf struck with the General Assembly.
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July 11, 2022
The Sierra Club submitted motions to intervene to the United States’ Department of Energy (DOE) protesting export authorizations for three separate fracked gas “LNG” export terminals: Lake Charles LNG, New Fortress LNG, and Plaquemines LNG.
July 6, 2022
After Venture Global LLC failed to provide additional and necessary data regarding its proposed CP LNG export terminal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency announced that it is suspending the environmental review process for project and its associated pipeline,
June 29, 2022
State Building Code Council to pursue updates to residential building energy codes by end of year, accelerating clean, electric new construction
June 28, 2022
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 Southgate extension that is meant to extend the beleaguered mainline into North Carolina.
June 23, 2022
A new report from Synapse Energy Economics finds that ambitious target dates for setting zero-emissions sales standards for appliances will cut household energy bills without major grid impacts
June 16, 2022
New York — Today, environmental and climate justice groups picketed utility company National Grid’s ‘Equity in Energy’ summit in Brooklyn. Community members called on the utility to shut off the gas in phases 1-4 of the North Brooklyn pipeline and abandon its LNG expansion plan that will increase health problems for low-income Black and brown communities already facing disproportionate levels of pollution and to stop lobbying against New York’s landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Surprise, Surprise: Oil and Gas Lobbyists Think the Solution to All Our Problems is More Oil and Gas
June 14, 2022
Washington, DC – Today, the American Petroleum Institute (API) released a new 10-point plan laying out policy demands for expanded oil and gas production in response to current high fossil fuel prices and geopolitical instability.
In response, Sierra Club Senior Director of Energy Campaigns Kelly Sheehan released the following statement:
June 10, 2022
A new report on the potential impacts of Plaquemines LNG was released and sent this morning in a set of joint comments from Sierra Club and Healthy Gulf to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which urge the agency to deny the facility’s request to produce an additional 3.2 MTPA (million metric tons per year) of fracked gas. The organizations also argue that FERC must prepare a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that fully analyzes the facility’s potential impact on the environment, climate, and environmental justice communities in the construction of the Plaquemines LNG export terminal.
June 9, 2022
New York – Yesterday, Judge Robert A. Onofry dismissed a lawsuit filed by Danskammer Energy LLC, seeking to overturn the Department of Environmental Conservation's denial of a permit necessary for Danskammer to build a new fracked gas plant on the banks of the Hudson River in Orange County.
May 18, 2022
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 Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to produce reports that evaluate the petitions and provide recommendations on whether the EQB should approve the actions requested.
May 17, 2022
BRUSSELS -- Today, European Union adopted its RePowerEU plan to begin eliminating Russian fossil fuel imports. RePowerEU will focus on increasing energy efficiency and demand savings, reducing bottlenecks for clean energy projects, and expanding solar energy, with the goal of cutting the EU’s fossil gas imports from Russia by two-thirds this year and the remaining one-third by 2027. At the same time, the EU also released its International Energy Strategy, which will partially focus on increasing imports of false solutions like blue hydrogen and fossil gas through deals with the US, Egypt, Israel, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Japan, Korea, and other countries.