Skip to content
Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance Logo

Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance

Protecting environmental integrity in the Allegheny-Blue Ridge region

Menu

  • Home
  • About ABRA
  • Our Partners
  • Donate
  • Newsroom
Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance

Month: December 2019

You are here: Home » Archives for December 2019 » Page 2

Study: Natural Gas Led To Economic Benefits And Premature Deaths In Region

Card – WOSU Public Media – 12/12/19

Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2019 Regional & MVP Read more

Investment Bankers Are Now Waging the War on Coal

Card – The Atlantic – 12/17/19 Related: Goldman Sachs Announces It Will Stop Financing Arctic Oil

Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2019 Big Picture Read more

Fossil fuel plants get a boost from Trump-appointed regulators

Card – Washington Examiner – 12/19/19

Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2019 Big Picture Read more

What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human

Card – Scientific American – 12/18/19

Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2019 Big Picture Read more

The Energy 202: Clean energy loses big in year-end spending bill

Card – Washington Post – 12/18/19 Related: Here’s how green energy did in the $1.4T US spending bill

Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2019 Big Picture Read more

House green bank bill aims to leverage $35B in government funding into $1T in private investment

Card – Utility Dive – 12/16/19

Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2019 Big Picture Read more

All The Good (Under-the-Radar) News About Renewable Energy

Card – Clean Technica – 12/15/19

Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2019 Big Picture Read more

Briefs in Support of Dominion on AT Issue Filed With Supreme Court

Amicus briefs in support of the appeal by the U.S. Forest Service and Atlantic Coast, LLC to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Cowpasture River, et. al.  case were filed on December 9.  As noted in last week’s ABRA Update,

Daniel Shaffer December 13, 2019 Pipeline Updates Read more

Fish and Wildlife Service Proceeding on Redrafting of New Permit

The biological opinion and taking statement issued for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and twice struck down by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (most recently in July of this year), is

Daniel Shaffer December 13, 2019 Pipeline Updates Read more

Charitable Gifts by Utilities Used to Win Public Support, New Study Says

In a first-of-its-kind analysis, the Energy and Policy Institute (EPI) has examined the philanthropic contributions of 10 leading investor-owned electric utilities in the U.S. EPI found that “all of these major utilities use their charitable giving to manipulate politics, policies

Daniel Shaffer December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Pipeline Updates Read more
  • « Previous
  • Next »

ABRA CONSERVATION HUB 

ABRA’s Conservation Hub program promotes responsible resource management by providing access to critical information needed for effective public involvement in environmental review and oversight.

Following the defeat of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in 2020, ABRA initiated the Conservation Hub to support informed public engagement with the broader range of environmental issues confronting the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Mountain region. The Conservation Hub builds on the analysis and information sharing capacity achieved through ABRA’s Pipeline CSI project during the years of ACP opposition.

The Conservation Hub is based on the use of GIS mapping to provide details and context for land development projects and management practices that involve risk of environmental harm, as well as for environmental preservation and restoration initiatives. The Conservation Hub also provides access to regulatory documents and assessments related to specific projects or issues.

Multiple Conservation Hub sites, focused on individual projects or issues, have been developed collaboratively with ABRA’s partners and allies. Going forward, we invite conservation groups, individuals, and communities to provide ideas for new Hub sites and GIS mapping that can contribute to informed public engagement on behalf of environmental integrity in the Allegheny-Blue Ridge region.

ABRA

The Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the environmental integrity of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge region and the surrounding  Central Appalachian Highlands of Virginia and West Virginia.

Policies

Follow us

  • facebook

Contact Us

Dan Shaffer, Executive Director
Andrew Young, Staff Attorney
Olivia Miller, Communications Coordinator

Post Office Box 96
Monterey, Virginia 24465

Support ABRA

DONATE HERE

Subscribe to ABRA Updates

Copyright © 2025 Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance. All rights reserved. Theme Spacious by ThemeGrill. Powered by: WordPress.