WV Rivers Coalition Alert: Comment on Eastern Panhandle Pipeline

January 6, 2018

Submit Comments on Eastern Panhandle Pipeline Public hearing on Tuesday, January 9th; comments due by Friday, January 19, 2018 Map of the Mountaineer Gas Eastern Panhandle Expansion Project. You can submit comments to WVDEP on the Mountaineer Gas Eastern Panhandle Expansion Project (EP Pipeline), a 23-mile pipeline located in Berkeley and Morgan Counties of West Virginia. Through Friday, [...]

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OMG It’s Cold — The Polar Vortex and the Jet Stream

January 5, 2018

The Polar Vortex, Winter Storm Grayson, and Climate Change: What’s the Connection? From an Article by Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 4, 2018 Scientists are making progress in better understanding how much natural seasonal patterns, ocean cycles, and other factors play a role in altering the jet stream and how much global warming [...]

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NASA: Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

January 4, 2018

Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: About Us MISSION — The mission of “Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet” is to provide the public with accurate and timely news and information about Earth’s changing climate, along with current data and visualizations, presented from the unique perspective of NASA, one of the world’s [...]

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Sunoco Accused of Violating Drilling Rules by PA-DEP for Mariner East 2 Pipeline. All Construction Halted

January 3, 2018

Pennsylvania DEP accuses Sunoco of unauthorized drilling and polluting From an Article by Bill Rettew, Daily Local News, West Chester, PA, January 2, 2018 SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP >> Sunoco is again feeling the heat after the PA Department of Environmental Protection accused the pipeline builder of drilling without authorization. The 350-mile Sunoco Mariner East 2 [...]

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Equitrans Project Involves Compressor Station and MVP Pipeline

January 2, 2018

FERC staff wants more data on Equitrans project connected to Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) From a News Report of Sean Sullivan, SNL Daily Gas Report, SNL Financial LC, December 29, 2017   Staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asked for more information before they sign off on a request to proceed with construction on [...]

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Science Brief #1. Why It is So Cold Right Now!

January 1, 2018

Science briefs, No. 1. Why is it so cold right now? January 1, 2018 Essay by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer & Retired Professor, Lewis County, WV President Trump has famously joked from his Florida trip that much of he U. S. could “use a little global warming” right now. Like many of us he [...]

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New York Governor Should Halt the Millennium Valley Lateral Pipeline

January 1, 2018

Governor Cuomo: Halt pipeline work to protect bald eagle nests Commentary by Clara Soaring Hawk and Betty Lyons, Albany Times Union, December 29, 2017 It seems Gov. Andrew Cuomo has chosen action over words when it comes to protecting New Yorkers from the depredations of fossil fuel addiction, most recently calling for divesting state pension [...]

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Dominion Energy Scrambling to Revive Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)

January 1, 2018

As court challenges pile up, ACP gas pipeline falls behind From an Article by Gregory Schneider, Washington Post, December 30, 2018 Protesters banging drums may get more attention, but what has really damaged the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline in 2018 has been quiet action taking place in courtrooms. Opponents represented by the Southern Environmental Law [...]

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Oil Companies Invest $180B in Plastics, Propelling Oceans Toward ‘Near-Permanent’ Pollution

December 31, 2017

“We could be locking in decades of expanded plastics production at precisely the time the world is realizing we should use far less of it.” From an Article by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, December 26, 2017 Scientists and environmental protection advocates are warning that a coming plastics boom could lead to a permanent state of [...]

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Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline is a Nuisance in Lancaster County PA

December 30, 2017

‘It’s just constant’: Atlantic Sunrise pipeline company ordered to fix noise, lighting problems in Manor Twp. From an Article by Ad Crable, Lancaster Online, December 19, 2017 “The bottom line is the quality of life is being affected,” says Ed Burns, a retiree who pulls down the blinds and turns up the television to try [...]

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