October 18, 2019
Virginia announced an agreement to purchase clean energy for the state government, but the state’s utility still plans to use dirty fossil fuel power plants and is still pursuing fracked gas projects
pipelines
October 16, 2019
Late yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to halt construction activities along the entire 303-mile route of the project
October 15, 2019
hundreds of clean water activists joined hands across the Potomac River to protest plans by Columbia Gas to revive a fracked gas pipeline project that has already been rejected by the state of Maryland
October 11, 2019
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has put a hold on two permits that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) requires to proceed with construction activities
October 11, 2019
Virginia announced Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC will pay a $2.15 million penalty and must adhere to additional monitoring and environmental protections
September 27, 2019
On Saturday, September 28, hundreds of people will gather on the shores of Gichi-gami—Lake Superior— in Duluth for a rally and march to express their ongoing opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
August 28, 2019
FERC requested that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reinitiate consultation on its Endangered Species Act permit for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline
August 15, 2019
Just days after a coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), the project’s developers have announced they are voluntarily suspending new construction activities in the habitats of endangered species
August 15, 2019
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) inspectors “found unsafe construction practices at work sites on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline”
August 12, 2019
Conservation groups today launched a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)
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