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Momentum Building to Stop Gas Pipelines

Momentum Building to Stop Gas Pipelines

By Kelly Martin In the past few weeks, the Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign and our partners have helped secure game-changing victories in our work to stop fracked gas pipelines. There are more than 10,000 miles and nearly 100 large, multi-state fracked gas pipelines proposed in the U.S. right now. If these pipelines are constructed, fracking […]

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    Momentum Building to Stop Gas Pipelines

    Momentum Building to Stop Gas Pipelines

    By Kelly Martin In the past few weeks, the Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign and our partners have helped secure game-changing victories in our work to stop fracked gas pipelines. There are more than 10,000 miles and nearly 100 large, multi-state fracked gas pipelines proposed in the U.S. right now. If these pipelines are constructed, fracking […]

    In Major Climate Decision, DC Circuit Rejects Federal Approval of Sabal Trail Pipeline

    In Major Climate Decision, DC Circuit Rejects Federal Approval of Sabal Trail Pipeline

    By Elly Benson Last week, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) attempts to downplay the massive climate impacts of the Southeast Market Pipelines Project, a $3.5 billion project that includes the 515-mile Sabal Trail pipeline. FERC and the pipeline companies argued that even though the project’s purpose is […]

    Court Rules FERC Failed to Adequately Review Environmental Impacts of Sabal Trail Pipeline

    Court Rules FERC Failed to Adequately Review Environmental Impacts of Sabal Trail Pipeline

    The U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Tuesday saying that the Federal Environmental Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately review the environmental impacts of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the fracked gas Sabal Trail pipeline, which runs more than 500 miles through Alabama, Georgia and Florida. “Today, the D.C. Circuit rejected FERC’s […]

    Thousands of Miles of Pipelines Enrage Landowners, Threaten the Future of Our Planet

    Thousands of Miles of Pipelines Enrage Landowners, Threaten the Future of Our Planet

    By Kristen Lombardi and Jamie Smith Hopkins They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people’s yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they’d spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction. Together these new and expanded pipelines—comprising 2,500 miles of steel […]

    4 Pipeline Fights Intensify as Dakota Access Nears Completion

    4 Pipeline Fights Intensify as Dakota Access Nears Completion

    By Alleen Brown Under orders from President Trump, the Army Corps of Engineers on Feb. 7 approved a final easement allowing Energy Transfer Partners to drill under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Construction has re-started, and lawyers for the company said it could take as little as 30 […]