by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 23, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
When concerns about a pipeline were dismissed by regulators, a rural black enclave went to court — and won. New York Times Opinion Jan. 23, 2020 By Jeff Gleason, the executive director of the Southern Environmental Law Center. How we treat the story and future of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 11, 2020 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
On January 7, 2020, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the air permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Buckingham compressor station located in Virginia’s historic, predominantly African-American Union Hill community. The air permit was granted last...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Spiritual Ecology
On Wednesday December 11, 2019, The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia came to Buckingham to see and hear for herself what social and environmental injustice looks like on the ground. Her first stop was...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 15, 2019 | Politics of energy
RICHMOND — Two state lawmakers unveiled a bipartisan effort on Thursday to reclaim the state’s authority to set electric rates, a sign that the incoming Democratic-controlled legislature may take on Virginia’s biggest utility, Dominion Energy. Dels. Lee...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 14, 2019 | Politics of energy
We are told that Dominion will be trying very hard in the last weeks of this Congressional session to persuade members of Congress to ignore the pending Supreme Court process and adopt legislation to immediately permit the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline...
