Constitution Pipeline Contractors Cut 558 Valuable Trees But Pipeline is Defunct

July 5, 2020

Family lost hundreds of trees to failed pipeline project but gets land back From an Article by Susan Phillips, State Impact Penna., July 3, 2020 A Northeastern Pennsylvania family who watched as work crews, accompanied by armed federal marshals, destroyed their budding maple tree farm to make way for the failed Constitution Pipeline has settled [...]

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Off Grid Energy Independence: $16 Trillion in Renewable Energy Sources Predicted by 2030

July 4, 2020

Goldman Sachs Sees $16 Trillion Investment in Renewables by 2030 From the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, July 1, 2020 Spending on renewable power is set to overtake oil and gas drilling for the first time next year as clean energy affords a $16 trillion investment opportunity through 2030, according to Goldman Sachs [...]

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The COVID-19 and Climate Change Justify a Large-Scale “National Economic Transition”

July 3, 2020

Update on National Economic Transition (NET) in Public Interest From the Center for Coalfield Justice, Washington, PA, July 1, 2020 This weekend is the July 4th holiday but this year more than ever, I am reflecting on how we are not truly free until all people are free to thrive in this country. This is [...]

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§ Coal Community Leaders Release Historic Platform for National Economic Transition (NET)

July 2, 2020

Built on Community-Driven Solutions by Local, Tribal, and Labor Leaders, NET Platform Pushes For Bold Investments in National Transition Program For Those Hit Hardest by Changing Coal Economy # # # # CONTACTS: Trey Pollard, Just Transition Fund, tpollard@justtransitionfund.org and Cat McCue, Appalachian Voices, cat@appvoices.org NATIONWIDE – Today, 80 local, regional, and national organizations and [...]

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Virginia’s C4GT Project is a Greenhouse Gas Power Plant (needed-?)

July 1, 2020

State regulators want conditions met before approving contentious gas project From the Staff Reports, Virginia Mercury, June 26, 2020 The Virginia State Corporation Commission regulates Virginia electric utilities. In an order Friday, this State Corporation Commission imposed conditions that must be met before a contentious natural gas expansion project can proceed. The Virginia Natural Gas [...]

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Pennsylvania to Control Emissions of Methane & Volatile Organic Compounds

June 30, 2020

Hearings enable residents to speak on methane emissions From an Article by Rick Shrum, Observer-Reporter, Washington, PA, June 29, 2020 Vanessa Lynch and her husband moved back to the Pittsburgh region following his military service. They thought it was a good place to nurture a family. This is no longer Smoky City Pittsburgh, but she [...]

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Divestment from Fossil Fuels is Essential says Bill McKibben

June 29, 2020

Bill McKibben Interviewed on the Divestment Movement Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth, June 26, 2020 INTRODUCTION — Harvard is one of the latest in a series of wealthy institutions around the world announcing steps towards pulling their investments in the fossil fuel industry. But Harvard’s announcement has been called too little, too late. [...]

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§ Exploring Environmentalism through the World’s Religions

June 28, 2020

Religion and Environmentalism: Exploring the Issues Book by Dr. Lora Stone, University of New Mexico, Gallup, April 14, 2020 It took two years for Buddhist monks and a community tired of litter to build what is now the famous Wat Pa Maha Kaew—or Temple of a Million Bottles—complex in the Sisaket province of northeastern Thailand. [...]

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Environmental Studies Underway to Re-evaluate Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)

June 27, 2020

Forest Service Cautioned Against Relying on FERC’s EIS for the ACP News from the Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance, Update #282, June 25, 2020 The U.S. Forest Service has been cautioned that it should not depend upon the reliability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) developed in 2017 by [...]

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The Time for Natural Gas Fired Electricity has Passed — GHG Damages our Earth

June 26, 2020

The truth about the future of gas: We don’t need to build anymore From an Article by David Wooley, Utility Dive, June 22, 2020 The following is a contributed article by David Wooley, professor at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Public Policy. What is [...]

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