Consequences of GHG Emissions — Climate’s Troubling Unknown Unknowns

April 23, 2019

We can’t adapt to perils we can’t foresee — we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions now From an Article by William B. Gail, PhD, New York Times, April 22, 2019 • Donald Rumsfeld famously popularized the term “unknown unknowns” in a 2002 news briefing when describing the challenges of linking Iraq to weapons of [...]

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OVERVIEW: The Global Deal for Nature — An Important if not Necessay Plan

April 22, 2019

A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets Authors are E. Dinerstein1,*, C. Vynne1, E. Sala2, A. R. Joshi3, S. Fernando1, T. E. Lovejoy4, J. Mayorga2,5, D. Olson6, G. P. Asner7, J. E. M. Baillie2, N. D. Burgess8, K. Burkart9, R. F. Noss10, Y. P. Zhang11, A. Baccini12, T. Birch13, N. Hahn1,14, L. [...]

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Environmental Justice Issues at FERC with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)

April 21, 2019

Legal Brief: FERC’s Flaws Endanger Communities of Color in Atlantic Coast Pipeline Path PRESS RELEASE. Contact: Jake Thompson, jthompson@nrdc.org, (202) 289-2387, Fabiola Nunez, fnunez@nrdc.org, (646) 889-1405; Elizabeth Heyd, eheyd@nrdc.org, (202) 289-2424 WASHINGTON (April 15, 2019) – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission broke the law in two key ways that discounted and endangered African American and [...]

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ALERT: Monroe County WV Meeting on Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)

April 20, 2019

IMPORTANT MEETING TO BE HELD BY SAVE MONROE Public meeting on Tuesday, April 23 to learn more about a possible MVP Reroute over the Columbia-Celanese Corridor Local groups have learned that the Mountain Valley Pipeline might be redirected to cross over Peters Mountain on an alternate route along the Columbia-Celanese corridor close to Peterstown. Save [...]

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Dominion Energy Secretly Negotiated for Liability Waiver on ACP with VA Governor

April 19, 2019

Pipelines Bombshell: Terry McAuliffe Held Secret Meetings for 18 Months or More to Negotiate $58 Million Liability Waiver Agreement with Dominion and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline From an Article by Jon Sokolow, Blue Virginia, April 13, 2019 For at least eighteen months, and perhaps longer, the office of former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe engaged in [...]

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Problems of Plastic Pollution in the Oceans much Worse

April 18, 2019

Surging Plastic Pollution in Oceans Revealed by Plankton Research Equipment From an Article by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, April 17, 2019 The equipment was towed across millions of miles of ocean for six decades by marine scientists, meant to collect plankton — but its journeys have also given researchers a treasure trove of data on [...]

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First WV Natural Gas Power Plant Set for Harrison County

April 17, 2019

Construction of WV’s first gas-fired power plant to start this summer From an Article by Charles Young, WV News, April 13, 2019 CLARKSBURG — Following several years of planning, the developers of a natural-gas-fired power plant planned for a site in Clarksburg’s Montpelier Addition hope to begin construction this summer. The plant will be West [...]

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MVP Case — FERC has Record of Disregard for the Environment

April 16, 2019

With variance, FERC allows Mountain Valley Pipeline to play it by ear Letter of Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Mercury, April 15, 2019 In May 2018, Mountain Valley Pipeline confessed to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that its plan for stream crossings along its proposed 303-mile fracked gas pipeline had been based on “theoretical desktop analysis” that [...]

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MarkWest’s Sherwood Complex in Doddridge County is Huge & Expanding

April 15, 2019

MarkWest’s Sherwood Complex in Doddridge County, WV, plans further capacity expansion in 2019 From an Article by Charles Young, WV News, 4/13/2019 WEST UNION — The operators of the MarkWest Sherwood Complex in Doddridge County plan to further expand the facility’s capacity this year. Randall Eastham, facility manager of the Sherwood Complex, said it has [...]

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Excessive Government Activity in Promotion of Ethane Storage & Crackers

April 14, 2019

‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry From an Article by Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, April 12, 2019 This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shale gas extraction [...]

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