by Nelson Bailey | Aug 16, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
More than 70 people spoke during a contentious Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) public hearing in Jarman Hall at Longwood University on Thursday held to receive comments on draft water quality certifications “designed to protect water quality” along...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 15, 2017 | Press Releases
We continue to read articles about the ongoing effort by Pennsylvania Democrats and some squishy Republicans to slap a severance tax on top of an existing impact tax on natural gas drilling in the Keystone State. As we pointed out yesterday, Philadelphia teacher’s...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 14, 2017 | Events
Protest at Virginia Dominion Power August 16 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. , Dominion Virginia Power (Charlottesville headquarters), 1719 Hydraulic Rd., Charlottesville 22901, protest against the ACP. Bring your signs...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 13, 2017 | Fracking, Press Releases
Why is fracking exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, and five other bedrock environmental laws? In 2005, thanks to oil and gas industry lobbying, the EPA was stripped of its authority to regulate fracking. It’s called the Halliburton loophole....
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 12, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Press Releases
You don’t need to rely on environmentalists’ climate calculations to know the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is carbon budget buster. Just look at the numbers provided in the past month by Dominion Energy Virginia and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. On July 14th,...