Three (3) ‘Mama Bears’ Arrested Protesting the Mariner East 2 Pipeline

August 26, 2018

Three ‘Mama Bears’ busted during pipeline rally in Delaware County, PA From an Article by Bill Rettew, Daily Local News, West Chester, PA, August 25, 2018 MIDDLETOWN >> The Battle of Mariner East 2 continues to heat up. Three “Mama Bears” – local moms who fiercely oppose Sunoco’s pipeline plan – were arrested and led [...]

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Retreat on Economics at the EPA is NOT in the National Interest

August 26, 2018

SCIENCE EDITORIAL — Retreat on economics at the EPA . . . . . . . . . Kevin Boyle is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Matthew Kotchen is a professor of economics at Yale University, New Haven, CT Editorial from Science Magazine, August 24, [...]

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MVP and ACP in Work Stoppage Mode, Some Work Ongoing

August 25, 2018

Mountain Valley Pipeline releases as much as half of workforce due to stoppage From an Article by Charles Young, West Virginia News, August 20, 2018 CLARKSBURG — The Mountain Valley Pipeline project has released as much as 50 percent of its construction workforce as a result of the recent court-ordered work stoppage. The delay will [...]

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Virginia Supreme Court Backs Dominion Energy in Conflicts of Interest Case

August 24, 2018

Virginia’s high court rejects case against Dominion for conflicts of interest on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline From an Article by Ivy Main, Virginia Mercury, August 24, 2018 Many Virginia leaders seem to have the notion that if our environment is being polluted and ordinary people are having their land destroyed, that must be good for [...]

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Delaware River Basin Involves NY, PA, NJ, DE Now at Risk

August 23, 2018

New Jersey agency seeks review of FERC orders on PennEast pipeline From an Update by Miguel Cordon, S&P Global Market Intelligence, August 22, 2018 A New Jersey agency in charge of protecting state ratepayers asked a federal appeals court to review the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval of PennEast Pipeline’s 1.1-Bcf/d natural gas pipeline [...]

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Wildfire Smoke from West Coast Now Reaching Across Country to East Coast

August 22, 2018

Smoke From California Wildfires Is Reaching the East Coast From an Article by Jennifer Calfas, Time Magazine, August 10, 2018 Smoke billowing from the destructive fires burning through California this summer has spread far beyond the Golden State — reaching the East Coast. The National Weather Service says smoke from the raging fires out West [...]

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WV Supreme Court Justice Gave Natural Gas a Big Victory and Shortchanged Residents

August 21, 2018

Justice Beth Walker helped reopen the case when her husband owned stock in related energy companies From an Article by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail & ProPublica, August 20, 2018 The Republican-led West Virginia House of Delegates received national attention last week for impeaching all four of the state’s sitting Supreme Court justices. Lawmakers [...]

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In the NY Finger Lakes, Local Activists Put a Cork in Dangerous Gas Storage Proposal

August 20, 2018

After a wave of public opposition, New York State regulators have denied a proposal for a LPG gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes region From an Article by Jessica A. Knoblauch, Earthjustice.org, July 27, 2018 “Do you still have that bottle of champagne? Well, get ready to put it on ice!” After almost a [...]

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Water Usage for Horizontal Drilling & Fracking and Wastewater Volumes are Increasing

August 19, 2018

Fracking industry water use rises as drill lengths increase — Marcellus region shows smallest increase in water use but quadruples frack waste from 2011-16 From an Article by Jon Hurdle, State-Impact Penna., August 15, 2018 Water use for fracking by oil and gas operators in the Marcellus Shale region rose 20 percent between 2011 and [...]

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Appalachian Mountain Advocates and SELC Bring New Legal Action Against Atlantic Coast Pipeline

August 18, 2018

New Atlantic Coast Pipeline suit takes aim at FERC approval, which underpins the whole project From an Article by Robert Zullo, Virginia Mercury, August 16, 2018 A federal court in Richmond that has served as a major legal battlefield this summer over federal and state permits for the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines got [...]

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