June 15, 2018
Virginia residents have submitted more than 3,000 comments to their Water Control Board demanding the Nationwide Permit 12 for the fracked gas Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines be revoked.
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June 6, 2018
Yesterday, attorneys for the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates (Appalmad) appeared before the Virginia Supreme Court to present oral arguments in Sierra Club v. State Corporation Commission.
May 31, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved Florida Southeast’s planned spur off the Sabal Trail Pipeline to supply a planned fracked gas-burning plant in Okeechobee, FL.
May 30, 2018
Today, the Sierra Club and the FreshWater Accountability Project filed comments with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on the water quality permit for Shell’s Falcon ethane pipeline.
May 23, 2018
The Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has indefinitely suspended portions of a permit required for construction of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)
May 22, 2018
A coalition of environmental advocates filed a motion for stay, asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to put an immediate stop to the construction across waterways of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline
May 18, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted to ignore the catastrophic environmental effects of gas pipelines.
May 17, 2018
The Sierra Club is calling on FERC to order the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to immediately cease construction activities after the pipeline’s builders had their Incidental Take Statement vacated
May 16, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied FERC’s motion to hold the Sierra Club and partners’ challenge to the Mountain Valley Pipeline in abeyance. FERC had argued that the case should be paused indefinitely to give the Commission more time to respond to rehearing requests filed in November 2017. The Natural Gas Act requires that FERC act on such requests within 30 days, but FERC regularly uses so-called “tolling orders” in an attempt to give itself more time to respond.
May 14, 2018
With FPL proposing to expand the burning of fracked gas at their Dania Beach plant, residents of South Florida are uniting in opposition
May 14, 2018
With FPL proposing to expand the burning of fracked gas at their Dania Beach plant, residents of South Florida are uniting in opposition
May 4, 2018
This week, the U.S. government fined Enbridge $1.8 million over the Canadian pipeline company’s failure to meet inspection deadlines for a number of its oil pipelines running through the Midwest. The inspections were required as part of a settlement following Enbridge’s disastrous 2010 tar sands pipeline spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which spilled more than 1 million gallons of oil and cost more than $1 billion to clean up.