by Nelson Bailey | Oct 18, 2016 | Politics of energy
Amy Goodman showed us the perils of standing up to the fossil fuel industry | May Boeve | Opinion | The Guardian. For far too long, the world had been ignoring the North Dakota anti-pipelines protests. Then the Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman captured private security...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 14, 2016 | Pipelines
Attorneys with the Charlottesville-based Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed a new motion with federal regulators over Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). They say the pipeline’s new route would impact properties protected from...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 10, 2016 | Health & Safety
BY MARCUS STERN AND SEBASTIAN JONES SEP 11, 2013 Jeffrey Wiese (center), PHMSA’s associate administrator for pipeline safety, testifies at a hearing on pipeline safety. Credit: Rep. Gus Bilirakis Jeffrey Wiese, the nation’s top oil and gas pipeline safety...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 7, 2016 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels
RICHMOND, Va. – Dominion Virginia Power wants to rely too heavily on fuels that change the climate, according to critics of the state’s largest utility. Dominion has filed its Integrated Resource Plan with the State Corporation Commission. Depending on which...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
Buckingham County faces the irony of being the only Virginia county already targeted for geometrically higher climate change and environmental health impacts to a front-line community from the sole 68 acre industrial complex compressor station, that is also targeted...
