WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a new biological opinion and incidental take statement after the Fourth Circuit previously invalidated and suspended the authorizations twice already. Most recently, just last year, the court found that the agency failed to adequately analyze the project's environmental context when assessing the detrimental impacts to the Roanoke logperch and the candy darter, a species on the brink of extinction.
Topeka, KS – Just two months after the Keystone pipeline spilled almost 13,000 barrels of tar sands oil in Washington, Kansas, the pipeline’s operator TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) has now announced that the leak was due to construction flaws, including bending stress on the pipe and improper welding.
Montreal, Canada -- As negotiations on a new 10-year plan to reverse the accelerating loss of life on Earth wrap up at the 15th UN Conference of Parties (COP15), Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline continues to threaten biodiversity, health, and climate. Throughout COP15 in Montreal, water protectors and environmental advocates from the United States and Canada amplified the extraordinary threat Enbridge’s fossil fuel infrastructure poses to the Great Lakes and inherent Indigenous rights.
Clearwater County, MN – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that his office filed criminal charge against Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company behind the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, over an aquifer breach that happened during construction of the controversial pipeline.
Groups submitted more than 31,000 comments asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deny Mountain Valley Pipeline’s request for four more years to build the pipeline, which would be catastrophic for the climate if completed.
This afternoon, the US Army Corps of Engineers will hold the first of six virtual public meetings to hear testimony on its review of Nationwide Permit 12, a blanket permit which allows fossil fuel pipelines to receive approval without public notice, environmental review, or opportunity for any public involvement.
Late last Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) request to bore under 183 streams and wetlands at 120 locations in Virginia and West Virginia.
Washington, DC — Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mountain Valley Pipeline’s rehearing request on the court’s decision invalidating the biological opinion and incidental take statement issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act. The court originally found that the agency failed to adequately analyze the project's environmental context when assessing the detrimental impacts to the Roanoke logperch and the candy darter, a species on the brink of extinction.
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gathered for its monthly meeting. At the meeting, the commissioners discussed updates to FERC’s recent policy statements on pipeline reviews, as well as voting to approve expansions of three fracked gas pipelines.
Tomorrow, Tennessee’s Senate Commerce and Labor Committee and House Commerce Committee will convene to vote on an amendment to SB 2077/HB 2246 that would completely rewrite the energy infrastructure bill to strip local communities of decision making authority over the impacts of energy projects.
Today, NextEra Energy Inc. announced it is reevaluating its investment in the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline after the 4th Circuit rejected two necessary approvals.
This week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers committed to withhold a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) at least until the project has a valid Endangered Species Act biological opinion.