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For Immediate Release, May 3, 2021 Contact: Liz Doherty, Sierra Club, (978) 578-3699, liz.doherty@sierraclub.org Maia Raposo, Waterkeeper Alliance, (917) 740-6545, mraposo@waterkeeper.org Hallie Templeton, Friends of the Earth, (434) 326-4647, htempleton@foe.org Army Corps Sued for Failure to Protect Waterways, Endangered Wildlife From Pipeline Construction Nationwide Permit 12 Greenlights Environmental Destruction GREAT FALLS, Mont.— Environmental groups filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a nationwide permit that allows streamli...

GREAT FALLS, Mont .— Environmental groups filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a nationwide permit that allows streamlined development of oil and gas pipelines through wetlands, streams and rivers. The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Montana by the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Waterkeeper Alliance and Montana Environmental Information Center. In reissuing Nationwide Permit 12, during the final days of the Trump administration, the Corps failed to analyze the environmental impacts of pipelines, including fro...

© getty A coalition of five environmental groups on Monday sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying the corps did not properly analyze environmental impacts when issuing a broad pipeline permit. The plaintiffs, which include the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Waterkeeper Alliance and Montana Environmental Information Center, filed the lawsuit in federal court in Montana. The permit at issue, Permit 12, is a so-called nationwide permit that streamlines the pipeline permitting process. The corps estimates its 2021 version will be used more than 40,000...

Photo: Jim Mone (AP) Unless you’re living in Huntersville, North Carolina, you may be blissfully unaware that the U.S.’s biggest gasoline spill since 1997 happened this past summer. The slowly-unfolding, little-reported-on saga in the state involves a company controlled by special interests like the Koch brothers and Shell, and a pipeline that has been transporting dirty energy for decades. And the crisis of the Colonial pipeline points to one of the next big issues for American fossil fuel infrastructure: what to do about dangerous, aging pipelines as we move to clean energy. Advertisem...

New York and New England Need More Clean Energy. Is Hydropower From Canada the Best Way to Get it? Two massive projects, requiring hundreds of miles of transmission lines, have left Indigenous communities in Canada, and some U.S. activists, up in arms. October 4, 2020 Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan live deep within Maine's North Woods and fear that construction of transmission lines for a project called New England Clean Energy Connect will destroy their idyllic existence. Credit: Sally Kwan Related Share this article As the sole residents of unorganized territory T5 R7 deep within Maine’s No...