by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 2, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on Environmental Justice. Heeding the principle that “protection of our natural resources applies equally to all individuals,” the council’s charge is...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 1, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board (APCB) is about to consider a permit for a natural gas compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The site being considered for this compressor station is inappropriate, yet the Virginia Department of Environmental...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 28, 2018 | Climate Change, Health & Safety, Pollution - Other Sources
Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom • Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Air pollution is the new tobacco. Time to tackle this epidemic...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 27, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
“Based on the information available at the time of this review, the requirements established in this draft permit make BCS the most stringently controlled compressor station in Virginia and in the United States. The pollutant limits and monitoring requirements...
