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6 Banks Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline

6 Banks Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Residents of Virginia and West Virginia opened up a new front Thursday in their fight to stop the 301-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline: targeting the major U.S. “main street” banks on tap to finance the fracked-gas project’s $3.5 billion price tag. Landowners along the pipeline route are calling on customers to move their money out of […]

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    6 Banks Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline

    6 Banks Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline

    Residents of Virginia and West Virginia opened up a new front Thursday in their fight to stop the 301-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline: targeting the major U.S. “main street” banks on tap to finance the fracked-gas project’s $3.5 billion price tag. Landowners along the pipeline route are calling on customers to move their money out of […]

    Virginia Governor Shows Trump What Climate Leadership Looks Like With His Own Executive Order

    Virginia Governor Shows Trump What Climate Leadership Looks Like With His Own Executive Order

    Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued an executive directive Tuesday to the Commonwealth’s Department of Environmental Quality and the Air Pollution Control Board that will lead to a strong limit on carbon pollution from power plants through regional cooperation. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will now begin crafting plans to develop a program to reduce […]

    Virginia House Votes to Keep Fracking Chemical Cocktails a Secret

    Virginia House Votes to Keep Fracking Chemical Cocktails a Secret

    Virginia’s House of Delegates voted 59-37 on Monday in favor of a bill that would allow fracking companies to keep their chemical cocktails a secret. HB 1678 states that “chemical ingredient names, the chemical abstracts number for a chemical ingredient, or the amount or concentration of chemicals or ingredients used to stimulate a well” are […]

    Thousands of Crude Oil Gallons Spill Into James River as Train Derails in Virginia

    Thousands of Crude Oil Gallons Spill Into James River as Train Derails in Virginia

    Thick smoke covered a Virginia town Wednesday after a CSX train derailed and thousands of gallons of crude oil spilled into the James River. The City Of Lynchburg said that the train was carrying crude oil and three or four of its 13 cars were destroyed. [blackoutgallery id=”332782″] “There is some spillage in the river of crude oil,” Lynchburg city […]