In January, 2024, President Biden announced a pause on export permits for liquefied natural gas (LNG). In their letter regarding this pause, published in The River Reporter on February 8, PA Senators Casey and Fetterman conclude: “If this decision puts …
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By Oliver Milman, The Guardian, January 26, 2024
Though there are 8 more LNG facilities that are permitted and not yet …
UPDATE (8/7/23): G2 STEM LLC has withdrawn its application for this injection well permit!
Read background information in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
DCS has submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing the issuance of a permit for an injection …
In September, a coalition of Scientists, Activists, and Families, called SAFE, traveled to DC to call out the EPA:
STOP working for corporations and start working for people!
CHEMICALS are polluting our water, air, and soil, and making us sick.…
Petition to be delivered to PHMSA on March 31, 2022, so please sign before then.
Background:
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …
By Alexander C. Kaufman, The Huffington Post, October 21, 2021
After months of waiting, environmental groups responded with disappointment tinged with …
By Catherine Morehouse, June 23, 2021, UtilityDive
Dive Brief:
- A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday vacated a federal order granting a $287 million Midwest
Biden’s executive order “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” (“Restoring Science”), issued January 20, has received bafflingly little publicity. In effect, it orders federal agencies to take out the regulatory trash …
By Kevin Robillard, HuffingtonPost, January 24, 2021
Read the order “Modernizing Regulatory Review”.
On his first day in office, President Joe
By Earthworks
The oil and gas industry is exempt from key provisions of seven major federal environmental laws — allowing practices that would otherwise be illegal. Some exemptions date back …
Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the U.S. Global …