Federal Clean Energy Funds ($823 Million) Being Held Back by Trump Admin.

February 7, 2020

Trump Withholding $823 Million for Clean Energy, Democrats Say From an Article by Ari Natter, Bloomberg News, February 5, 2020 The Trump administration is withholding nearly a billion dollars for a clean energy program it has unsuccessfully tried to cut, congressional Democrats said Wednesday, raising the specter of political interference. The unspent funds now amount [...]

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Support the WV Clean Drinking Water Act of 2020 (HB-4542)

February 6, 2020

Clean Drinking Water Act of 2020 Introduced, Contact Your Delegates Notification from the WV Rivers Coalition, January 24, 2020 Some good news from the legislature! A new bill led by Delegate Evan Hansen (D-Monongalia), called the West Virginia Clean Drinking Water Act of 2020, was introduced in the House as HB-4542. WV Rivers and the [...]

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Ethane Pipelines: Mariner East Construction Resumes; Mariner West “Open Season” for Ethane to Canada

February 5, 2020

Judge Denies Chester County Request for Injunction Against Mariner Pipeline From an Article by Michael P. Rellahan, Daily Local News, Chester County. PA, January 23, 2020 WEST CHESTER — A Chester County Common Pleas Court judge on January 23rd denied the county’s request for an injunction against Sunoco Pipeline to halt construction on the controversial [...]

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WV Legislature: Bills Introduced on Power Purchase Agreements (PPA’s)

February 4, 2020

Power Purchase Agreement? WV Legislature — Bills Introduced with Hope of Spurring Power Purchase Agreements in Renewable Energy Development Article from the National Law Review, January 17, 2020 As many states see a push for renewable energy opportunities for their customers located in (or scouting new locations in) their borders, West Virginia legislators are poised [...]

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Part 2. Serious Near-Term Challenges to the Future of Fracking

February 3, 2020

Could 2020 Determine Fracking’s Future? From an Article by Renee Cho, Earth Institute, Columbia University, January 28, 2020 Environmental impacts are very serious problems Methane leaks, vents and flares Natural gas is mostly methane, a greenhouse gas that, over 20 years, traps more than 84 times more heat in the atmosphere than does carbon dioxide. [...]

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Part 1. Serious Near-Term Challenges to the Future of Fracking

February 2, 2020

Could 2020 Determine Fracking’s Future? From an Article by Renee Cho, Earth Institute, Columbia University, January 28, 2020 Over the last 10 years, the U.S. has become the largest oil and gas producer in the world, largely due to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. From 2005 to 2018, U.S. natural gas production rose by 70 percent, [...]

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The High Risk Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is Not Needed

February 1, 2020

New Paper Underscores Lack of Need, High Risks of the ACP From the Allegheny — Blue Ridge Alliance, Update #261, January 30, 2020 “Continued efforts to complete the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) are fraught with risks” to investors, ratepayers and those who live along the route of the ACP, according to a new paper released [...]

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Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (H.R.763) Gaining Support in US Congress

January 31, 2020

Climate Lobby’s work nationwide & overseas has given me hope From an Essay by Ann OBrien, Daily Camera, January 24, 2020 The January 11th front-page article in the Daily Camera reveals the horrifying effects from the massive wildfires in Australia. While the devastating loss of human lives, property and animals will take decades to overcome, [...]

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Greta Thunberg Understands Economics Better Than Steve Mnuchin

January 30, 2020

Greta Versus the Greedy Grifters — Why a 17-year-old is a better economist than Steve Mnuchin From an Essay by Paul Krugman, Opinion Columnist, January 27, 2020 I’ve never been a fan of the World Economic Forum at Davos, that annual gathering of the rich and fatuous. One virtue of the pageant of preening and [...]

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#ScienceNotSilence Campaign of the March for Science

January 29, 2020

The “March for Science” Must Reach Out to Political Leaders ASAP By Chet Monday, Director of Youth Programs, December 15, 2020 On the final day of COP25, March for Science launched the #ScienceNotSilence campaign in response to the IPCC’s 1.5C Report being blocked at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid. In partnership [...]

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