by Nelson Bailey | Apr 8, 2017 | Press Releases
Lafayette, Co, Law Builds on Growing Rights-Based Efforts to Stop Climate Change FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mari Margil mmargil@celdf.org LAFAYETTE, CO: On March 22nd, the City Council ofLafayette, Colorado, became the first municipality in the state to recognize...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 26, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
As natural gas pipelines beneath our cities get older, small natural gas leaks are increasingly becoming a serious environmental problem. Taking advantage of the fact that Google’s Street View cars are constantly roaming our urban corridors, a novel...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 22, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
In yet another setback for the Constitution Pipeline a federal court in New York has dismissed its sponsors’ lawsuit challenging state permitting requirements. Constitution submitted a joint application to the New York State Department of Environmental...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 22, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
The financial giant is the first of a group of 17 banks to divest from the loan that financed the pipeline as the embattled project is set to begin transporting oil. The financial giant ING has sold its stake in the $2.5bn loan financing the Dakota Access pipeline,...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 21, 2017 | Compressor Stations, Pipelines
An environmental organization is challenging in court the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors’ January decision to grant a special-use permit for a compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, based in North...
