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Another Setback for Plans for a New Pipeline in NY’s Harbor
This article discusses how plans for a pipeline in NY’s Harbor has had another setback.
Three weeks after New York State rejected a bid to build a natural gas pipeline through its waters, the state of New Jersey did the same on Wednesday.
Like their counterparts in Albany, […]
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DeSmogBlog, June 15, 2019
This blog discusses the following:
Following Carcinogen Data Fiasco, Pressure Grows on Massachusetts to Revoke Enbridge Facility Permit
US Poised to Approve Shipping LNG by Rail for Export With No New Safety Rules
House to Debate Amendment With Big Implications for Expanding Petrochemical Industry
Australia’s Controversial Adani Coal Mine […]
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DeSmog Blog – June 8, 2019
This DeSmogBlog weekly posting addresses:
A March Through Heat, Felony Threats, and Pollution Brings Louisiana’s Cancer Alley to Governor’s Attention
Will Ohio River Get Optional Pollution Limits as New Fracking-Reliant Plastics Industry Moves in?
Exclusive: Enbridge Is Behind This Front Group Pushing the Company’s Line 3 Oil Pipeline Project
Congressional […]
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How eminent domain is blighting farmers in path of gas pipeline
This The Guardian article discusses how eminent domain is blighting farmers in path of gas pipeline. Compulsory purchase – or the threat of it – of property on the route of a pipeline for fracked natural gas has left a slew of grievances and lawsuits in West Virginia and […]
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Pipeline opponents strike back against anti-protest laws
This article discusses how pipeline opponents strike back against anti-protest laws in Louisana and South Dakota, and soon, Texas. OPPONENTS OF OIL and gas pipelines in three states are fighting back against new anti-protest laws aimed at suppressing fossil fuel industry dissent. Two lawsuits in Louisiana and South Dakota, and a […]
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Quoting ‘The Lorax,’ Court Pulls Permit For Pipeline Crossing Appalachian Trail
This article discusses a recent court decision to pull the permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
A federal appeals court has thrown out a power company’s permit to build a natural gas pipeline across two national forests and the Appalachian Trail – and slammed the U.S. Forest Service for granting […]
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DeSmog Blog, week of 5/23/2019
This week’s blog includes discussions about transporting fracked gas via trucks instead of pipelines; new laws in Louisiana that criminalize pipeline protests; Trump, DOJ, and “clean coal”; shipping companies and GHGs; a report on plastics; Biden and his Dominion Energy connection; Warren Buffet and fracking; FER$C and its pipeline […]
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Report: Internet Giants Reject Dominion’s Plan for More Fossil Fuels in Virginia
This Greenpeace article discusses how Internet giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple issued a letter rejecting Dominion’s plan for more fossil fuels in Virginia. At Dominion Energy’s integrated resource plan hearings in Virginia today, cloud computing and internet giants delivered a letter demanding the company shift away from planned […]
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Two articles on Dominion Energy
This Virginia Mercury article discusses Dominion trying to pull the wool over our eyes about its commitment to solar power. It’s by Ivy Main, Sierra Club and Power for the People. The article postulates that Dominion is waving the shiny thing in one hand, so you don’t notice what’s […]
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Study: North American drilling boom threatens big blow to climate efforts
This article discusses a study that shows that the North American drilling boom threatens big blow to climate efforts.
More than half the world’s new pipelines are in the US and Canada.
Pipelines ‘locking in huge emissions for 40 to 50 years at a time’.More than half of the world’s new […]
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