March 22, 2022

Stop LNG by Rail

Sign the petition calling on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to ban LNG “bomb” trains.

Petition to be delivered to PHMSA on March 31, 2022, so please sign before then.


Background:
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …

October 22, 2021

Climate Poses Many Threats To U.S. Financial System & Natural Gas May Be Major Risk

The federal entity created to guard against another Great Recession just issued its first landmark report on global warming
By Alexander C. Kaufman, The Huffington Post, October 21, 2021

After months of waiting, environmental groups responded with disappointment tinged with

June 26, 2021

DC Circuit Rejects FERC Approval of Existing Spire Gas Pipeline

“An unprecedented mess of FERC’s own creation.”
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
March 9, 2021

The Even More Game-Changing Biden Order You’ve Never Heard About

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

January 25, 2021

The Game-Changing Biden Order You Haven’t Heard About

A directive about the regulatory process could lead to progressive movement on climate change, public health and worker safety.
By Kevin Robillard, HuffingtonPost, January 24, 2021

Read the order “Modernizing Regulatory Review”.


On his first day in office, President Joe

October 14, 2019

Loopholes for Polluters

The Oil and Gas Industry’s Exemptions to Major Environmental Laws
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 …

December 14, 2018

The Climate Report That Trump Tried to Bury

Summary of major U.S. government report that warns of major threats to human health and safety, quality of life, and economic growth Climate & Capitalism, November 24, 2018

Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the U.S. Global

January 14, 2018

FERC Will NOT Overrule NY's Denial for Constitution Pipeline Permit

FERC decision supports New York State DEC
By Robert Walton, UtilityDive, January 12, 2018

Finally, a FERC decision that does NOT support the oil and gas industry!

Dive Brief:

December 13, 2016

EPA Retracts Conclusion of "No Widespread or Systemic" Risk from Fracking

SUCCESS!!! EPA’s prior conclusion of “no widespread or systemic” risk has been deleted from its final report on fracking
US Environmental Protection Agency

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Since the first draft of the EPA’s study on the impact of fracking on drinking water, DCS …

December 1, 2016

Tell the EPA to Tell the Truth About Fracking

DCS has been involved in the EPA study since it was first proposed by NY Congressman Hinchey in 2009. We have submitted strong and detailed comments at every opportunity and gotten many scientists and impacted citizens to also testify about

August 30, 2016

Help Stop the Eldred Compressor Station

A compressor station for the Millennium pipeline has been proposed in Eldred, NY, and is now before the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC). This compressor station is opposed by many local groups on health, quality of life, environmental and economic …

August 24, 2016

DCS and the EPA's Fracking Study – What Have We Been Up To?

Since 2008, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability has been among the leaders in the fight against fracking, often working behind the scenes to achieve tangible results. For example, in 2012 DCS proposed a ban on frack waste in New York …

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