by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 6, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Events
TYLER HAMMEL/THE DAILY PROGRESS Two supporters talk with Richard H. Allan III (right) following his hearing Thursday at Charlottesville General District Court. An Albemarle County man charged with removing a plaque that marks the spot where enslaved people were...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 7, 2020 | FERC communications
RICHMOND (May 7, 2020) – Attorney General Mark R. Herring today joined a coalition of 11 attorneys general in calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to impose an immediate moratorium on approvals of all new and pending applications for natural gas...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 20, 2020 | Economic Impacts, Politics of energy
When announcing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, its owners, including Dominion Energy, said the project is essential for us to have the energy we need, will save us millions of dollars each year, foster economic development and be a windfall for shareholders. Events...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 7, 2020 | Events
Join ARTivism Virginia’s and the SUN SiNG Collective’s on line concert and workshop series. From Artivism Facebook page: Feeling socially distant? Isolated? Down about the cancelled concerts and events you were looking forward to this spring? As we stay at home to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 4, 2020 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
After a seven-year battle, Grant Township fought off a permit for an injection well. “Fights like ours should mushroom all around Pennsylvania,” says town supervisor Grant Township, Pennsylvania; Mike Belleme for Rolling Stone An unlikely crew of environmentalists...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 29, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
An Expedition led by Senior Fellow, Karen Kasmauski with the International League Of Conservation Photographers. For a stunning photographic essay and story of Union Hill in Buckingham County and also Nelson County please click HERE.
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 26, 2020 | Health & Safety
To: Governors of Virginia and West Virginia It’s the responsibility of governors to protect all the people in their states including rural regions. The Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction projects require transient pipeline...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 25, 2020 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 25, 2020 | Health & Safety
Excerpts of Email from Delegate Chris Hurst on March 23, 2020 Private Sector Guidance: Below are some resources that private sector businesses can use to establish greater communication with state government. Register on the state Private Sector Portal to be added to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 21, 2020 | Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Update: This celebration is cancelled until further notice. Everyone! Please be well and safe! When: Saturday March 28, 11am – 3 pm Where: The BARN (Buckingham Agriculture Resource Network) 11851 W James Anderson Hwy, Buckingham 23921 What: Join us for a Spring...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 3, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
By Blue Virginia – February 26, 2020 From the Virginia Sierra Club: Virginians Rallied in Protest of Trump’s Proposed NEPA Overhaul Climate advocates from across Virginia called on leaders to halt the rollback of NEPA Washington D.C. – The Trump administration...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 2, 2020 | Politics of energy
The climate crisis is at our doorstep, so why is Governor Northam pushing bad industry-friendly climate policy? His Clean Economy Act is riddled with industry handouts and loopholes that allow continued dependency on fossil fuels. Don’t let Virginia make a huge...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 1, 2020 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 1, 2020 | Events, Pollution - Other Sources
County Waste/Green Ridge has filed a Notice of Intent and Part A Permit Application with the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a 1200-acre Landfill in eastern Cumberland County. This Heavy Industrial Facility will have a significant impact on the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 1, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Events
The Poor People’s Campaign March on Washington is gathering momentum. In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 29, 2020 | Events, Sustainability
Tish O’Dell, Community Organizer for Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, https://celdf.org will be speaking at University of Richmond Law School on Wednesday March 4, Noon-1 pm, Building 203, Room 114. University Map Tish has been a leading advocate in the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 19, 2020 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 19, 2020 | Economic Impacts, Politics of energy
Several bills have crossed over in the Virginia legislature that would hinder the State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) ability to rule whether or not clean energy projects would be in the ratepayers’ interest. By mandating that it is in the “public...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 28, 2020 | Health & Safety
The Center for Earth Ethics joined the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research to convene the Institute’s 2nd Annual Clinical Climate Change Conference. Additional partners included the American Lung Association and the American Public Health Association. CEE...
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...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 14, 2019 | Economic Impacts
Chevron’s multibillion-dollar write-down of gas assets is the most recent sign that the gas supply has far outstripped demand. HOUSTON — A decade ago, natural gas was heralded as the fuel of the future. In shale fields across the country, hydraulic fracturing uncorked...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 14, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
View short video on Youtube A wonderful new video from independent news outlet Grist. Eastern North Carolina is home to the environmental justice movement – and also to some of the state’s biggest threats to human and environmental health, the latest being the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 14, 2019 | Environmental Justice
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, the Energy and Policy Institute has examined the charitable contributions of 10 leading investor-owned electric utilities in the U.S., finding that all of these major utilities use charitable giving to manipulate politics, policies and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 22, 2019 | Events, Press Releases, Spiritual Ecology
NETWORK Continues Nationwide Series of Rural Roundtables in Virginia VIRGINIA — Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice and leader of Nuns on the Bus will meet with residents and community leaders from around...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 29, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Chilling after a hopeful morning in court at Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s [CBF] Richmond headquarters, a few doors down from the Fourth Circuit Court, Tuesday, October 29, 2019. Jon Mueller of CBF, David Neal & Greg Buppert of Southern Environmental Law...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 5, 2019 | Newsletter
