October 9, 2020
Duke Energy released a plan to further commit itself to fossil fuels
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September 22, 2020
MDE removed a hurdle for the fracked gas Del-Mar pipeline by recommending that the Maryland Board of Public Works approve Eastern Shore Natural Gas’ wetlands construction plans
September 17, 2020
MONTGOMERY, AL -- On Monday, the Sierra Club asked the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) to reconsider a billion-dollar Southern Company fracked gas proposal, citing secret negotiations that the company and its subsidiary Alabama Power kept from the Commission and other parties. Sierra Club’s filing also raised a First Amendment claim against the PSC’s “media coverage plan,” which prevented public communication about the contested issues in this case.
September 15, 2020
The Sierra Club and a coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s latest assault on critical safeguards against oil and gas pollution.
September 14, 2020
Water and climate advocacy organizations submitted comments and signatures from exactly 43,000 people demanding FERC deny the fracked gas MVP more time to construct the pipeline
September 4, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a new [Biological Opinion] for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The 303-mile project is stalled while awaiting necessary authorizations, including from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management.
September 2, 2020
[Lacey, WA] -- Today, the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) released a new draft environmental analysis to evaluate the greenhouse gas impacts of the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery, proposed in Kalama, Washington. The methanol refinery would use up to 320 million cubic feet of fracked gas per day, more than all of Washington’s gas-fired power plants combined.
August 28, 2020
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas declined to require Kinder Morgan to stop construction of the Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline across 129 waterways, allowing for the destruction of hundreds of acres of habitat for endangered species.
August 25, 2020
MVP asked FERC for two more years to complete the project
August 18, 2020
MONTGOMERY, AL - Late Friday, the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) greenlighted Alabama Power’s billion-dollar fossil fuel expansion and booted its solar investments to a different docket. This presents a massive economic risk for Alabama Power’s customers as the PSC approved the utility’s plans to pass all the costs of building and maintaining the new gas plants onto its customers.
August 13, 2020
Kinder Morgan CEO Steve Kean announced yesterday that the company plans to reroute the controversial Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline to go around the Blanco River, in response to public outrage over a spill during pipeline construction, the impacts of which Kinder Morgan has repeatedly downplayed, that left Blanco County residents without clean drinking water.
August 13, 2020
Today, the Trump administration is expected to finalize two rules that eliminate common sense Clean Air Act safeguards against methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.