Group protests expanding pipeline into NC. Critics say it will dig up burial grounds
The project would allow for more natural gas transportation for energy companies, but Cavalier-Keck said it would dig up sacred burial grounds. Author: Lana Harris Updated: 6:49 PM EDT April 29, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. A group of activists in Charlotte gathered in Marshall Park on Thursday in protest of extending the Mountain Valley Pipeline from Virginia into North Carolina. We’re just kind of tired of being pushed aside,” said Crystal Cavalier-Keck, founder of the indigenous advocacy organization 7 Directions of Service.
The proposed extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline would run 40 miles into North Carolina from Virginia.
D.C. Statehood is a Voting Rights Issue… and Racial Justice Issue
The disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of D.C. residents is fundamentally un-American and there is no good reason to allow it to continue.
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ByBen Jealous
Washington, D.C. has a higher percentage of Black residents than any state in the country, and they have no voting representation in Congress. This is systemic racism in action. It is long past time to give Washington’s 712,000 residents the representation they deserve by making D.C. our 51st state.
It is shameful that people who live in the nation’s capital have no say in Congress. And it is unacceptable that local laws and budgets passed by D.C. elected officials can be overturned by members of Congress who decide to meddle in local decision-making. That explains why Washington, D.C.’s license plates include the slogan, “End taxation without representation,” a rallying cry by American colonists against the tyranny of B
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Attorney General Nessel Joins Series of Multistate ActionsContact: Lynsey Mukomel 517-599-2746Agency: Attorney General
April 30, 2021
Letter Urging Congress to Void Trump-Era EPA Regulation
Nessel joined a coalition urging Congress to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to invalidate a Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that eliminates key limits on pollutants from oil and gas facilities that contribute to climate change and smog, and are also dangerous by themselves.
The regulation - known as the methane Rescission Rule - replaced a prior regulation that ensured new oil and natural gas facilities would apply common sense, cost-effective measures to control emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants that can also form smog. Oil and natural gas facilities are currently the single largest industrial source of methane emissions, and contribute to smog pollution that triggers asthma attacks, and can c
PennEast may change pipeline route if it loses Supreme Court case
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WASHINGTON – An attorney for PennEast told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the company would change its plans to build a natural gas pipeline if it loses a legal battle with the State of New Jersey over acquiring state-owned land for the project.
“If we lose this case . this pipeline will, you know, not be built at least in anything like its current configuration,” Paul Clement, PennEast s attorney, told Justice Brett Kavanaugh in an oral argument before the court.
The proposed $1 billion, 116-mile natural gas pipeline from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, would cross the Delaware River north of Milford, then parallel the river through western Hunterdon County before ending at Transco’s trans-continental pipeline near Pennington in Mercer County.
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Part 4: Interior sends clear signal promoting wind, targeting oil, gas
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick has sought to smooth tensions with states whose varied clean energy policies have come into conflict with the nation s mandatory power capacity markets. And in its natural gas project work, FERC has begun to elevate considerations of climate change, environmental justice and community impacts, at times rattling pipeline companies worried about the permanence of its decisions supporting projects. Glick is attacking everything. He is at warp speed right now, said Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen, rattling off multiple policy initiatives, rulemakings, and workshops on the gas and power agenda.