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A historic African American community in Virginia has dealt another blow to the embattled Atlantic Coast Pipeline. A federal court threw out a permit Tuesday that the pipeline‘s owners needed to build a natural gas compressor station in Union Hill, a community founded by freed slaves after the Civil War. In doing so, the judges […]

By Wenonah Hauter Last week, the fossil fuel industry successfully squashed several local measures it didn’t like—thanks to the more than $100 million it shelled out to oppose them. Initiatives to rein in fracking failed in Colorado, where the industry spent a whopping $40 million (outspending advocates 40-1) and in San Luis Obispo County, where […]

Builders of the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline told federal authorities they will delay construction along 21 miles in West Virginia and 79 miles in Virginia until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issues a revised “incidental take statement,” which limits the number of threatened or endangered species that might be accidentally killed or harmed […]

A Virginia panel of regulators granted a conditional approval for a controversial gas pipeline Tuesday, saying that more information on environmental impact is needed before the project can proceed. The Virginia State Water Board voted 4-3 to approve water permits for the pipeline in one of the project’s last remaining hurdles, but delayed the start […]

By Andy Rowell There is a growing political scandal in Virginia regarding the ubiquitous influence of the state’s largest energy company, Dominion Energy, and it’s raising fundamental questions about the integrity of the governor’s office and state regulators who will decide the fate of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Dominion’s longstanding exercise of power and […]