Dear Senator Capito, Gas Infrastructure is Adversely Impacting West Virginia

October 1, 2016

Dear Friends of Wild Wonderful West Virginia From the West Virginia Sierra Club, October 1, 2016 Our Senator Capito recently brought Energy Secretary Moniz to West Virginia. She followed up with a newspaper opinion piece touting “infrastructure” – something that sounds wholesome, like Mom and apple pie. “Good Infrastructure” is both benign and beneficial – [...]

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Drilling & Fracking Continue to Devastate Rural and Suburban Areas

September 30, 2016

Frack Nowhere: US Gas Fracked At The Expense Of Communities From an Article by  Blue and Green Tomorrow, September 26, 2016 On Tuesday 27th September, ethane from US fracking will arrive in Scotland for the first time. Campaigners from both continents attacked bosses at INEOS for their financial gain from the destructive shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania. Almost [...]

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Update on Fracking in Virginia & Maryland

September 29, 2016

EDITORIAL – Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 27, 2016  YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW: “Fracking FOIA”  [FOIA = Freedom of Information Act of Virginia] Richmond, VA — At the behest of oil and gas interests, a state commission has suggested that Gov. Terry McAuliffe delay the implementation of new drilling rules. The industry wants time to ram through [...]

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Community and Conservation Groups Condemn FERC’s Review of Proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline

September 28, 2016

PRESS RELEASE: The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Mountain Valley Pipeline is Inadequate, September 16, 2016 Contacts: Joe Lovett, Appalachian Mountain Advocates, 304-520-2324, jlovett@appalmad.org Laurie Ardison, Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights, 304-646-8339, ikeandash@yahoo.com Kirk Bowers, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, 434-296-8673, kirk.bowers@sierraclub.org Kelly Trout, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, 240-396-2022, kelly@chesapeakeclimate.org Lara Mack, Appalachian Voices, [...]

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The U. S. EPA and President Obama are Right on Clean Energy

September 27, 2016

The Clean Power Plan is the Transition Needed for the U. S. and the Earth From a Letter by William D. Ruckelshaus and William K. Reilly, New York Times, September 25, 2016 Last year, President Obama took aim at the nation’s largest source of carbon dioxide pollution, announcing a plan that would reduce these climate-changing emissions [...]

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Natural Gas Meetings & Updates Regarding Fracking in West Virginia

September 26, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENT –  Community Meeting on Mountain Valley Pipeline Join us next Thursday evening, September 29th,  Ireland Community Building The next step for the Mountain Valley Pipeline was the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, or DEIS. This document, released on September 16, explains the environmental impacts of building the pipeline. The impact statement’s 90-day public comment period is [...]

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Virginia Supreme Court to Hear Appeal on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

September 25, 2016

Do the ACP surveyors represent a private company or a regulated utility? From an Article by the Staff, NBC News 29 (WVIR), September 18, 2016 Augusta County, VA — There’s a big break for those against the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Virginia Supreme Court will now hear an appeal after an Augusta County Circuit [...]

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Some 182 Organizations from 35 States Call for Congressional Review of FERC

September 24, 2016

Hundreds of Nonprofit Organizations Join to Demand Reform of Rogue Agency PRESS RELEASE From Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, September 22, 2015 Washington, DC – More than 180 organizations representing communities across America, including West Virginia, called on leaders in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and House Energy and Commerce Committee to [...]

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Major New Pipelines Proposed in 24 States — More Climate Change Denial?

September 23, 2016

Some 14 Pipeline Projects in 24 States … Which Will Be the Next Battleground From an Article by Dan Zukowski, EcoWatch.com, September 22, 2016 Encouraged by the Obama administration’s shelving of the Keystone XL pipeline and its revoked authorization for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on federal lands, activists are now eyeing new battles. [...]

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Most All Scientists Know Climate Change is a Threat.

September 22, 2016

Politicians need to realize it, too. Some 375 scientists have written a letter about what’s at risk. From an Article by Kerry Emanuel and Ben Santer, Washington Post, September 20, 2016 The climate is changing in dangerous ways, and we are responsible for most of these changes. This is not a matter of conjecture or [...]

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