pipelines

March 31, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, seven conservation and community groups filed a court challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) authorization for Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, to construct the MVP Southgate gas pipeline. The petition for review, filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), Appalachian Mountain Advocates, and Sierra Club in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, asks the court to vacate the amended certificate of convenience and public necessity issued by FERC in December 2025.

March 27, 2026

RALEIGH, N.C. – Today, a group of clean air and water advocates announced the launch of the NC Pipeline Watch to monitor construction of the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project pipeline (SSEP).

March 3, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups filed a request for rehearing for the dangerous, expensive, and unnecessary Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, or SSEP.

February 20, 2026

Yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit for the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, an interstate pipeline proposed by Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC. The Corps’ permit, issued under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, authorizes Transco to cut crossings through more than 150 streams and wetlands.

January 30, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authorized the dangerous, expensive, and unnecessary Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, or SSEP.

December 19, 2025

RALEIGH, N.C. - Today, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has approved the water and air permits for Transco’s proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project pipeline.

November 19, 2025

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.

November 13, 2025

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. 

November 6, 2025

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.

October 31, 2025

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.

October 21, 2025

COOKEVILLE, TN - Enbridge has announced it has begun building its Ridgeline Expansion Project, despite the outpouring of opposition to the dangerous fossil fuel pipeline.

October 7, 2025

RALEIGH, N.C. - More than 750 North Carolinians have spoken out against the proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project pipeline, telling the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to deny the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project pipeline a water quality permit.