Dangerous NEXUS Fracked Gas Pipeline Unnecessary
New Challenge Argues FERC Should Reevaluate Fracked Gas Pipe WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Appalachian Mountain Advocates (Appalmad), on behalf of the Sierra Club, filed a request for rehearing with the...
View ArticleConservation Groups Act to Oppose Rappahannock Electric Co-op’s Proposed Rate...
Environmental Group Claims Utility’s Plan is Unjust For Low-Income Customers RICHMOND, Virginia– Yesterday, the Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission granted Sierra Club’s Motion to...
View ArticleConservation Groups Argue Conflict of Interest in Fracked Gas Pipeline
RICHMOND, VA — Today, attorneys for the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates (Appalmad) filed an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court to ensure that a deal for fracked gas shipping capacity...
View ArticleLetter: Virginia cannot approve proposed natural gas pipelines lacking...
Conservationists concerned about the two highly controversial natural gas pipelines proposed to cut hundreds of miles through Virginia sent a detailed letter to the State Water Control Board today...
View ArticleDereliction of Duty: WVDEP Abandons Water Quality Review of Fracked Gas Pipeline
CHARLESTON, WV — Today, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) waived its opportunity to review the water quality impacts of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline. Under...
View ArticleAppeals Court Grants Temporary Stay on Fracked Gas Pipeline
Washington, DC — Today, the D.C. Circuit of Appeals granted a temporary stay on construction of the fracked gas Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Williams,...
View ArticleGroups Take Legal Action Against FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Washington, D.C. – A coalition of affected landowners and conservation groups today filed a request for rehearing urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider its approval of the...
View ArticleGroups Challenge Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Sierra Club and allied conservation groups yesterday requested a rehearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast...
View ArticleGroups Sue to Stop NEXUS Fracked Gas Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, Appalachian Mountain Advocates (Appalmad), on behalf of the Sierra Club, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
View ArticleEnvironmental Groups Challenge Virginia’s Unlawful Approval of Fracked Gas...
RICHMOND, VA — Today, a coalition of environmental groups filed a petition for review with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to overturn Virginia’s unlawful approval of the...
View ArticleEnviros Sue to Stop Mountain Valley Pipeline
WASHINGTON, DC — Late yesterday, a coalition of environmental groups took legal action in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to halt the start of construction of the fracked-gas Mountain...
View ArticleLegal Challenges Filed Targeting Atlantic Coast Pipeline Approvals
Charlottesville, VA – The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, on behalf of a coalition of community and conservation groups, filed a legal challenge to the...
View ArticleFERC Faces Legal Challenge Over ACP Decision
Charlottesville, VA— Appalachian Mountain Advocates and the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a challenge in federal court on behalf of 11 conservation groups challenging the Federal Energy...
View ArticleCounty Board once again tables pipeline permit
Earlier this week, Appalmad wrote to the Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals on behalf of Augusta County residents concerned about a 34-acre laydown yard that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline wants to...
View ArticleClean Water Advocates Challenge Army Corps of Engineers on Fracked Gas...
RICHMOND, VA — Today, a coalition of clean water advocates filed a suit contending the United States Army Corps of Engineers improperly issued a crucial permit for the fracked gas Mountain Valley...
View ArticleClean Water Advocates Ask Judges to Halt Fracked Gas Pipeline
RICHMOND, VA — Today, a coalition asked the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to order Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to stay out of West Virginia streams until a decision is made on their appeal from...
View ArticleAdvocates for Clean Air and Water Seek Stay on Atlantic Coast Pipeline...
RICHMOND, VA — Today, a coalition of environmental advocates filed two requests to stop construction of the controversial fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) in the US Court of Appeals for the...
View ArticleCourt stops Pipeline’s timbering of “The Wilderness” (for now)
Today the Fourth Circuit issued an order preventing imminent tree cutting by the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on “The Wilderness,” a 1,000-acre farm listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The...
View ArticleCourt Halts Pipeline Tree Cutting, Requires Full Review on Historic VA Property
More good news for The Wilderness, a 1,000-acre historic farm threatened by the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This morning a unanimous judicial panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the...
View ArticleNew challenge to MVP project questions river crossing permit
By Ken Ward Jr. Charleston Gazette-Mail Federal officials approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline using a streamlined review process that isn’t allowed for projects with the kind of time-consuming river...
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