August 15, 2019
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) inspectors “found unsafe construction practices at work sites on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline”
methane-gas
August 12, 2019
Shell’s facility is one of five proposed for the region that would put health, safety, and clean drinking water at risk
August 9, 2019
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 the Clean Water Act
August 2, 2019
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
August 1, 2019
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 not provided convincing evidence” of a need for the MVP extension
July 26, 2019
Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a permit that the ACP needs to continue construction
July 22, 2019
Today, the Power Past Fracked Gas coalition expressed its deep disappointment in the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) preliminary approval of the Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Tacoma LNG facility.
July 9, 2019
A new report released today highlights the reputational damage that would plague any bank or investor that supports three fracked gas export terminals proposed for Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
July 9, 2019
Advocates for a Cleaner Tacoma filed a lawsuit today challenging the Washington State Department of Ecology’s issuance of a key permit for Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) proposed fracked gas facility in the Port of Tacoma. The Sierra Club is supporting the legal challenge to the project as an “interested party.”
May 31, 2019
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.
May 30, 2019
In a newly discovered presentation to shareholders, NextDecade, the company behind the controversial proposed Rio Grande LNG export terminal and Rio Bravo pipeline, revealed that the company plans to export dramatically more fracked gas than it disclosed to federal regulators.
May 30, 2019
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 to be exported,” the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has doubled down on that concept.