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December 7, 2018

Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC (ACP) notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it is stopping all work along the entirety of its 600-mile route

December 7, 2018

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality announced they are suing the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (MVP) for repeated violations of common-sense environmental protections.

December 4, 2018

Earthjustice, on behalf of the Sierra Club, filed a brief contesting FERC’s new policy that it would stop analyzing the full range of climate impacts of gas pipeline projects

November 30, 2018

Governor Rick Scott and the rest of the Florida Power Plant Siting Board voted unanimously to approve the expansion of fracked gas burning at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) Dania Beach Plant

November 19, 2018

Over 40 landowners and community members gathered in Gibsonville, NC Saturday to determine a strategy for stopping the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate extension.

November 15, 2018

Gov. Ralph Northam reportedly informed two members of the State Air Pollution Control Board that they would soon be replaced

November 15, 2018

90% of all gas pipeline fires and explosions draw no financial penalty for the corporations responsible

November 7, 2018

Washington, DC -- Yesterday, the company behind the contentious Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a fracked gas pipeline that is projected to run from West Virginia to Virginia, filed its application to continue the project into North Carolina with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.  . The proposed Southgate extension would extend the pipeline into North Carolina. This move appears meant to thwart vocal opposition, as MVP likely anticipates decreased attention by submitting its application on a day when everyone is preoccupied with the election.

October 5, 2018

Today, at the request of a coalition of clean water advocates including the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Army Corps of Engineers suspended a permit that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must have in order to build through waterways in Virginia.

October 2, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott, in his role as head of the Florida Power Plant Siting Board, moved a controversial vote to after the election as he seeks a seat in the United States Senate.

September 25, 2018

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a stay of the National Forest Service decisions allowing Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction.

September 17, 2018

The National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have issued new permits for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, according to Atlantic’s filings with FERC today.