By Michael Sainato In Virginia and West Virginia, residents and activists are battling natural gas companies over a natural gas pipeline currently being constructed. The Mountain Valley Pipeline will extend 303 miles from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia, with a recently proposed 70 mile extension into North Carolina. The project is being funded and […]
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 […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released its Final Environmental Impact Statement Friday for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial 303-mile pipeline that would carry two billion cubic feet of fracked gas per day from West Virginia through Virginia. As has been the pattern at FERC, the review fails to adequately assess whether the pipeline […]
Watch as Stephen Colbert on The Late Show mocks President Trump’s call to the mayor of Tangier, Virginia concerning the rapid coastline loss of the island, roughly 15 feet per year. According to local outlet Delmarva Now, Trump placed the call to Tangier Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge after seeing a CNN report on the impact […]
President Trump told the mayor of a small island experiencing rapid coastline loss to “not worry” about sea level rise. According to local outlet Delmarva Now, Trump placed the call to Tangier Island Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge after seeing a CNN report on the endangered island, which overwhelmingly voted for him. “[Trump] said, ‘Your island […]
The American Gas Association, a major trade group representing some of the nation’s largest natural gas companies and utilities, has launched a new front-group called Your Energy America aimed at promoting natural gas and pipeline infrastructure, all while casting fossil fuel opponents as “anti-energy extremists.” “As the name implies, Your Energy paints itself as a […]
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 […]
By Kelly Trout Now that Donald Trump has official announced that he plans to pull out of the Paris climate agreement and further entrench the power of the fossil fuel industry within our federal government, state and local action on climate becomes ever more crucial. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe recently said as much in announcing […]
As the Trump administration moves full speed ahead on boosting the oil and fossil fuel industry, opposition to increased pipeline construction is cropping up in different communities around the country. McClatchy highlights how the government and energy companies’ use of eminent domain to build pipelines through private property is turning rural voters in Trump country […]
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