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Op-Ed: The New Landscape for Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure 

Op-Ed: The New Landscape for Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure 

By Audrey Leonard, Staff Attorney, Columbia Riverkeeper For more than 20 years, Columbia Riverkeeper has fought dirty fossil fuel infrastructure — and won. Together with firefighters, fishers, foresters, farmers, health professionals, educators, union leaders, and tribes, we stopped more than a dozen proposed fossil fuel facilities, ranging from coal exports to LNG terminals.  Because of […]

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    Keystone Pipeline Dumps 14,000 Barrels of Oil Into Kansas Creek

    Keystone Pipeline Dumps 14,000 Barrels of Oil Into Kansas Creek

    The Keystone Pipeline dumped at least 14,000 barrels (588,000 gallons) of oil into a creek in Washington County, Kansas, forcing the shutdown of the pipeline. The full impact of the spill is still unknown, and cleanup efforts will likely be complicated by the fact that the spill impacted a waterway and because the sludgy tar […]

    France, Portugal and Spain Agree on ‘Green Energy Corridor’ for Hydrogen Transport

    France, Portugal and Spain Agree on ‘Green Energy Corridor’ for Hydrogen Transport

    Meeting prior to a European Union summit in Brussels, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, French President Emmanuel Macron and Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa agreed upon a “green energy corridor” — a new pipeline between Barcelona and Marseille underneath the Mediterranean Sea. The new energy supply route, termed BarMar, is an alternative to the proposed […]

    Burst Nord Stream Pipes Could Be One of the Worst Natural Gas Leaks Ever

    Burst Nord Stream Pipes Could Be One of the Worst Natural Gas Leaks Ever

    The methane leaking from Nord Stream pipes into the Baltic Sea may be one of the worst natural gas leaks in history, scientists say. Although the breached pipes were not in operation, they still contained natural gas when they were damaged. The leaking natural gas primarily consists of methane, a leading contributor to global warming. […]

    Russia Shuts Off Nord Stream Gas Pipeline to Europe

    Russia Shuts Off Nord Stream Gas Pipeline to Europe

    Russia indefinitely cut off delivery of methane-based gas to Europe, Gazprom said Friday. The state-owned energy company blamed the Nord Stream 1 pipeline shutdown on maintenance issues, just hours after the G-7 announced a joint cap on Russian oil prices, itself an effort to reduce Russia revenue from foreign fossil fuel sales. The full shut […]

    Biden’s EPA to Restore Power of States and Tribes to Block Pipelines

    Biden’s EPA to Restore Power of States and Tribes to Block Pipelines

    In a move that will reverse a rule from the former Trump administration, the Biden administration is prepared to again allow states and Tribes to block energy projects, like pipelines and coal terminals, that could pollute local waterways. Since 1972, the Clean Water Act has allowed states and Tribes to review federal project permits and […]

    Did Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Kill the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline?

    Did Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Kill the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline?

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have effectively killed a controversial fossil-fuel project.  On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced sanctions against the company and CEO behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany after the Russian government recognized two separatist territories in Ukraine as independent.  “Through his actions, President (Vladimir) Putin has provided […]

    Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Dakota Access Pipeline Appeal

    Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Dakota Access Pipeline Appeal

    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal by Energy Transfer, the Dallas-based operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), over a 2020 ruling requiring an environmental review of the oil pipeline, The Guardian reported. The lawsuit was brought by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who — along with the Cheyenne River Sioux […]