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2020

• DEQ ignores its duties, again

• Naval power plant proposal tests Virginia on environmental justice

• Despite setbacks for new natural gas projects, companies push forward with plans

• Reaching Net Zero Emissions In Virginia Could Increase State GDP More Than $3.5 Billion Per Year

• Dominion takes ‘monumental step’ on offshore wind

• Header Injustice Project is Dismissed by Virginia State Corporation Commission

• With offshore wind, Virginia hopes a 21st-century manufacturing boom will offset a hefty price tag

• Mining has a lasting impact

• Virginia Natural Gas infrastructure expansion to be scaled back amid plant financing troubles

• Federal regulators order Atlantic Coast Pipeline to provide a plan for project wind-down, restoration

• Final permit granted for wind farm in Botetourt County

• Public weighs in on gold mining in Buckingham

• BREAKING: Dominion Rewards Shareholders with $2.8 Billion in 2020, Largest Payout in Company’s History

• With new roadmap to combat rising seas, Virginia officially acknowledges the threat of climate change

• Virginia Department Of Environmental Quality Completes Environmental Justice Study

• With ACP canceled, Nelson residents look to environmental recovery

• The Christmas Tree: Dominion’s Rent-seeking “Re-Reg” of 2007

• Virginia regulatory staff project $800 annual customer bill increase for Dominion to meet clean energy law

• Toxic Coating on ACP Pipe Stored at Morgantown Industrial Park Needs Monitoring

• DEQ required Dominion to pay $1.5 million for potential, actual damage from Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Dominion’s pipeline coating concerns still unaddressed; more review needed

• The Conservation Hub: Strengthening Environmental Analysis and Improving Public Participation

• Bleicher and Rubin: Lessons for Corporate Leaders from the Death of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Virginia’s vanishing bee: State works to save rusty patched bumblebee

• Dominion Energy applies for additional 20-year license for its North Anna Power Station nuclear reactor units

• USFS needs advisory committee members

• A look at the Atlantic Coast Pipeline easement process that left Nelson landowners $15 million richer

• SCC: Dominion overcharged customers by $502M in 2017-19

• Dominion’s past-due power bills from pandemic hit $116 million

• Quitting the ACP leads Duke Energy to quarterly loss

• The history of the people vs. the pipeline

• Duke Energy to invest in renewables after cancelling pipeline

• More dominoes need to fall in ACP’s wake

• SELC asks Dominion Energy to end ‘pipeline to nowhere’

• Along now-defunct Atlantic Coast Pipeline route, landowners are left in the lurch

• How Virginians will move forward from the defunct Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Kotcon, Campbell: Many winners in scrapped pipeline project (Opinion)

• Farrell ‘not going anywhere’ as Dominion resets leadership succession

• Dominion takes $2.8 bln charge to exit Atlantic Coast natgas pipe

• The Atlantic Coast Pipeline was canceled. What happens to all the land acquired for it?

• No longer in Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s path, landowners consider next steps

• Defeat of Atlantic Coast Pipeline rooted in homegrown legal strategy

• Hallelujah. What’s next?: The defeat of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is only the beginning

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The ongoing toxic threat from canceled and delayed gas pipelines

• Back-to-back Va. rulings boost Dominion’s grip on renewables

• Dominion’s requests need public input, SELC argues

• Friction arises at FERC over remains of ACP, SHP gas pipeline plans

• Pipe storage yards said to be harmful for nearby residents

• Here’s what you need to know about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline cancellation

• Letters: The ACP

• It was more than just a pipeline we defeated

• The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Is Cancelled, But Here’s Why That’s Not Enough

• Dominion Pipeline Demise Delays Closer Look at Climate Impacts

• Dominion’s Post-ACP Clean Energy Awakening: Fact or Fiction?

• Dominion points to ESG as key factor in decision to off-load gas assets

• Out of gas

• ‘We won the impossible fight’: Nelsonians react to news of Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s demise

• Landowners hopeful, but wary after cancellation of Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• SELC’s pipeline team reflects on the path to victory

• Three Lessons Learned from the Axed Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• ‘Pray and Delay’ v. Dominion, Duke

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline cancelation an economic bust for West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina

• Dominion takes financial hit as company jettisons pipeline and gas transmission business

• Northam speeds up Virginia’s clean energy timetable

• With Supreme Court case over, courts again weigh whether Atlantic Coast Pipeline is needed

• Foot on the gas: Anti-pipeline activists fight on, undeterred by Supreme Court

• Federal agency’s lack of response to coating concerns unacceptable

• Pipeline wins Appalachian Trail battle but may lose war

• Report: landslides imperil pipelines

• State Officials Applaud U.S. Supreme Court Atlantic Coast Pipeline Decision

• Temporary RV park for Atlantic Coast Pipeline workers planned in Amherst industrial site

• Pipeline projects draw criticism for ‘environmental racism’

• COMMENTARY: Pipeline extension project is environmentally, financially risky

• Conservation groups ask to supplement pipeline report

• New Studies Make Clear Why Virginia Can – and Should – Switch As Quickly as Possible to Energy Efficiency, Solar, Offshore Wind

• Pandemic erodes the case for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• It’s high time to abandon ship on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Virginia Clean Economy Act may help get state’s economy back on track post COVID-19

• Planners Approve Laydown Yard

• Governor should think like a doctor about the pipelines

• It’s time to electrify Virginia

• Coal plants disappear in Va. But CO2 is rising

• With new energy regime only months away, regulators grapple with gas expansion proposal

• COMMENTARY: Environmentalists’ hypocritical objection to six-mile pipeline extension

• Thousands sign letter to end pipeline

• Even after pipeline pollution, DEQ is still resisting water protections and public participation

• Herring joins other AGs in call for federal regulators to halt new fossil fuel projects during pandemic

• Despite Clean Economy Act, Dominion forecasts a strong role for natural gas in Virginia

• Duke CEO decries ‘assault’ on natural gas as shareholders, others blast company’s resource plans

• SELC: Dominion plan anchored on pollution

• Thousands of Virginians, Scores of National Groups Tell Dominion CEO and Shareholders to Abandon Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Dominion expects bills to rise to pay for renewable mandates

• Clean Economy Act will help Virginia’s economic recovery

• How a GOP-backed plan threatens the Atlantic Coast pipeline

• At the cusp of historic energy investments in Virginia, COVID-19 handed us a lemon. Let’s make lemonade.

• D.C. Circuit Hears Challenge to Unjust FERC Practice Used to Advance Construction of Unnecessary Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is looking like a riskier investment every day

• Dominion Energy nearing construction on first offshore wind turbines in U.S. federal waters

• Troubled 600-mile pipeline’s need under scrutiny again

• FERC has a big pipeline problem

• New Virginia law could be Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s greatest barrier yet

• Virginia becomes the first Southern state with a goal of carbon-free energy

• Social cost of carbon could further sway Virginia from fossil fuel power plants

• Dominion: Significant new natural gas generation not viable

• Outdated pipeline surveys need updates from Dominion

• Zoning/Natural Gas Act: Federal District Court Addresses Preemption Issue

• Pipeline opponent wants appraisers off his property

• Virginia bill will put more pressure on Dominion Energy to justify cost recovery

• Is It the Death Knell For Dominion’s Pipeline?

• Photo Project Spotlights Pipeline Impact

• With a framework for Virginia’s energy transition in place, here’s what happens next

• Should Northam Reconsider Renewable Energy Legislation in Light of Pandemic?

• Virginia Regulators Reject Key Parts of Dominion’s Smart Meter, Grid Upgrade Plan

• Dominion Energy completes acquisition of Pivotal LNG

• Why a SCOTUS Case Over the Atlantic Pipeline Project Could Have Big Implications

• Virginia session sets up clean energy investment, Dominion regulations fall flat

• Q&A: NRDC attorney on the legal issues behind Atlantic Coast Pipeline challenge

• Can an unusual coalition budge Congress on pipeline reforms?

• FERC urged to stop major projects due to virus spread

• New state report: The climate crisis is coming home to roost in NC

• As the cost of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline soars, renewable energy is the better option for NC

• US District Court sides with Atlantic Coast Pipeline, dealing blow to Nelson County

• Virginia passes bill to bring scrutiny to coal plant closures, despite Dominion opposition

• Clean energy bill marks dramatic transition for Virginia amid dispute over costs to consumers

• Duke, Dominion, Southern won’t hit clean energy targets at current pace: Report

• High time to relocate troubled ACP project

• This Pipeline Case Could Gut 100 Years of Safeguards for Federal Parks

• Arbitrary, capricious decisions spell trouble for pipeline

• Governor signs bill making Virginia Council on Environmental Justice permanent

• Senate bucks the wishes of Dominion, Saslaw, Norment in surprise power plant retirement vote

• After intense Dominion lobbying, Senate panel kills bipartisan Fair Energy Bills Act

• Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Pipeline Across Appalachian Trail

• Supreme Court considers pipeline appeal

• From 4th Circuit to Supreme Court – A case history

• A pipeline runs through Southern news deserts

• Bill intends to question Dominion Energy pipeline need

• Dominion’s first storage projects to test increased solar integration, fewer distribution upgrades

• Argument preview: Supreme Court pipeline case nears

• Ten Things to Know About the Clean Economy Act

• Dominion Energy net-zero goal undercut by pipeline expansion, “renewable natural gas” offset scheme

• Dominion Energy: Renewable Energy Leader

• Feds seek to resume Atlantic Coast Pipeline Construction

• Dominion agrees to buy Southern stake in Atlantic Coast Pipeline as project costs soar

• Dominion Pipeline Clashes With Appalachian Trail at High Court

• America needs to stop its natural gas pipeline mania

• Dominion and Virginia Lawmakers Race to Define Clean Energy Goals, Offshore Wind Plans

• Dominion sets net-zero carbon goal by 2050

• After long delay, Democrats unveil Clean Economy Act energy omnibus

• Racism and ecological injustice combine in ‘reckless, racist’ Atlantic Coast Pipeline fight

• Bill Changing Rate Rules on Dominion Advances

• Virginia Explained: What does it mean to be ‘in the public interest’? And what does that have to do with offshore wind?

• Recovery plan proposed for endangered bumble bee involved in pipeline litigation

• Prominent Park Advocates and Leaders Take Battle Over Atlantic Coast Pipeline to the Supreme Court

• Va. attorney general seeks pipeline case Dismissal

• State And Local Leaders Set Climate Goals, But Can We Meet Them?

• Offshore Wind Mandate Advances, Cost Ignored

• Dominion Energy Appears to Be Circulating an Alternative to the Virginia Clean Economy Act…and It Doesn’t Look Good

• ‘Environmental Justice Is Not Merely a Box to Be Checked’

• Threats to safety, health, environment from pipeline still not addressed

• A Walk in the Woods: Pipelines and the Appalachian Trail

• Duke lobbyist says Cooper aide was untruthful

• NC And SC Lawmakers Call For Studies Of Electricity Market Reforms

• Bill that would ban Dominion donations dies in Democratic-led Senate committee

• In Virginia, anti-pipeline activists feel ‘justice was served’ with court ruling

• Virginia Lawmakers Move to Dismantle Energy Monopoly

• Youth Activists Ask VA Democrats To Support Green New Deal Bill

• General Assembly will decide whether to build environmental justice into Virginia law

• 4th Circuit nixes key permit for Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, citing environmental justice concerns

• Wilderness bill to protect 5,600 acres in Bath passes

• Opinion/Commentary: Legal details could have big effect on pipeline’s fate

• 2020: A Year of Pipeline Court Fights, with One Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court

• North Carolina Governor Accused Of ‘Pay-For-Permit’ Scheme

• With new Democratic leadership, General Assembly faces flood of energy proposals

• More natural gas infrastructure proposed for second Charles City plant

2019

• Gas glut compounds Atlantic Coast Pipeline woes

• Dominion still sees U.S. Atlantic Coast natgas pipe online in 2022 despite Morgan Stanley’s doubts

• ACP’s Supreme Court Petition Draws Widespread Support as Stakeholders Await Ruling

• Wilson: Forest Service wants to reduce public input

• Bipartisan bill in Virginia chips away at electric utility’s excess profits

• Dominion seeks permits to build new power plant in Chesterfield

• NC’s attorney general not among 18 push for ACP construction

• ‘Not Limited to Pipelines’; Supporters Step Forward to Cheer ACP’s Supreme Court Petition

• Big Energy front group launches push for troubled Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Is Del. Kaye Kory’s Electric School Bus Proposal A Good Deal for Consumers – Or For Dominion Energy?

• “Strings Attached”: New Report Examines How Dominion, Other Utilities “Use Charitable Giving to Influence Politics and Increase Investor Profits”

• Dominion suspends plan to add 1.5 GW of peaking capacity as Virginia faces gas glut

• A pipeline runs through it

• In Virginia, Union Hill and racial tensions have put environmental justice back on the map

• Restrictions Proposed on Duke Energy Influence Spending, but Groups say Loopholes Should be Closed

• Regulators reject request to boost Dominion’s profit rate

• Facing backlash, Dominion says it’s willing to have coal plant removed from green energy package

• The Atlantic Coast Pipeline investigation: Much ado about … something?

• Battery storage could be a key to cutting emissions. What’s Virginia doing about it?

• Northam Appointee Opposes DEV’s Green Tariff

• Dominion Energy’s electric school bus program offers valuable vehicle-to-grid lesson

• Duke Energy abruptly alters pipeline financing plan

• Sean McGarvey column: Don’t leave construction workers in regulatory limbo

• Senior advisor to lawmakers: Gov. Cooper’s office didn’t meddle in DEQ permitting of Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Dominion Virginia plan for 1.5 GW new peaking capacity will lead to more gas plants, NGOs fear

• 3 E’s: The Top 3 Climate Action Items for VA Leaders in 2020

• New Lazard Report on “Levelized Cost of Energy” Highlights Why Virginia Should Ditch Fossil Fuels, Go All-Out for Clean Energy

• Black Friday Deals for Energy Companies via The Nature Conservancy

• Environmental Nonprofit Studies Potential Impact of ACP on African American Community

• In face of litigation, Dominion reiterates Atlantic Coast Pipeline timeline, cost estimate

• Virginia’s legislative shift could tighten RGGI market, impact gas pipeline development

• Democratic Sweep Sets Up Confrontation With Corporate Giant That Has Loomed Over Virginia Politics For A Century

• North Carolina approved one pipeline. Why is it now questioning another?

• Virginia is all-in on offshore wind but Dominion’s decision raises questions about cost, competence

• Under questioning by 4th Circuit at pipeline hearing, state concedes Union Hill’s racial status

• Court’s decision on pipeline case a bump in the road

• Dominion’s green energy package comes with a catch: coal. Businesses aren’t happy.

• New “Climate in the Boardroom” Report: Dominion Energy Needs “independent chair policy to provide additional oversight”

• Duke Energy NC president: Climate and the case for natural gas

• Stand for equality and clean energy

• Alliance calls proposed pipeline construction flawed

• Investigators plan Atlantic Coast Pipeline questioning in November

• Dominion Refinances Capital Structure, and What It Means to Virginia

• Editorial: Will SC need gas pipeline like it needed abandoned coal, nuclear plants?

• Dominion throws the challenge flag on the Energy Freedom Act

• Will Virginians be able to resist the Atlantic Coast Pipeline?

• Duke climatologist seeks a halt on gas-fired power plants, Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Cooper staffers will testify on pipeline deal

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline waiting on Supreme Court, but natural gas debate in SC continues

• Mud pollution clogged a drinking water system. Now, Dominion Energy is in hot water

• Commonwealth of Virginia, Dominion Energy Partner on Historic Renewable Energy Agreement

• Supreme Court to hear appeal case on pipeline project

• What to watch in the Appalachian Trail pipeline fight

• Dominion PR Director Spins Through Revolving Door into Northam Administration

• For businesses and residents alike, Virginia must reform its energy economy

• Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Gas Pipeline Gets High Court Hearing

• Inside the Supreme Court showdown over Atlantic Coast

• 4 pipeline fights to watch this term

• Dominion buys pipeline support at Supreme Court through GOP Attorneys General

• Dominion Energy takes a second swing at costly plan to upgrade Virginia power grid

• Governor Northam’s Executive Order, Dominion Energy’s About-Face on Offshore Wind: Is Virginia Off to the Clean Energy Races?

• New North Carolina energy plan cuts greenhouse gases from electricity 70% by 2030

• Stalled Pipeline Overshadows Dominion’s OSW Project

• Don’t End Fight Over FERC Pipeline Approval, DC Circ. Told

• Editorial: What shade of green is Northam’s energy plan?

• Virginia can’t reach its 2050 climate goal if it keeps allowing natural gas infrastructure

• DC Circ. Asks If 4th Circ. Ruling Kills $7B Pipeline Fight

• Bath resident finds Dominion pipe coating analysis inadequate

• Virginia Ethics Enforcement So Weak It Can’t Be Rated

• Virginia governor sets renewable energy goal of 100 percent by 2050

• Renewable energy providers cleared to operate in Virginia

• EDITORIAL: Dominion shouldn’t keep all overcharges

• Utility to feds: No unsafe construction on Atlantic Coast

• Virginians demand Dominion Energy refund overcharges of $379M

• Dana Wiggins column: Dominion doesn’t need more profits

• The Case Against The Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• The pipeline, national security, and Dominion’s PR machine

• Mission accomplished: 4 month horseback ride against pipeline ends

• Green groups say no high court review needed on Atlantic Coast Pipeline hurdle

• A step too far for the Appalachian Trail

• Dominion claimed excess profits of $277 million in 2018, according to SCC report

• In North Carolina, novel legal maneuver deployed against Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Rural Virginia activist, 75, vows to ‘keep on fighting’ Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• With Hurricane Camille in mind, Nelson County worries about potential steep price for pipeline

• Renewable energy providers win skirmish against Dominion, but larger war drags on

• A blind crustacean, at least for now, is stronger than Dominion’s drive for a gas pipeline

• Lumbee Indians, climate coalition ask DEQ to revoke Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit; EPA proposes to clamp down on states’ authority

• Feds warn of unsafe construction on Atlantic Coast project

• Amherst council approves lease to Atlantic Coast Pipeline for storage yard, staging hub

• Virginia joins coalition suing Trump administration over Clean Power Plan replacement

• Dominion is polling its customers for pro-monopoly arguments

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Is It Still a Viable Project?

• Environmental group requests order halting Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction

• Pipeline company questioned over revoked permits

• Dominion’s 100% renewables tariff could kill Virginia’s retail choice ambitions

• Federal court strikes down Fish and Wildlife permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Pipeline permit vacated by court

• Judge Halts Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Land-Grab Attempt

• ‘Decision is completely wrong’: W.Va. Attorney General leads move to overturn pipeline ruling

• Dominion to focus on Supreme Court to get Atlantic Coast Pipeline to finish line

• Richmond-area group marks 75 weeks of pipeline protests

• Pipeline coating not risky feds told by Dominion Energy

• New Front In Dominion’s War Against Competition

• A Resolution Condemning Pipeline Challengers Passed Easily. A Pipeline Lobbyist Wrote It.

• Interfaith organization launches Climate in the Pulpits program

• Official: Atlantic Coast Pipeline seeks to lease Amherst site for storage, transporting workers

• ‘We Can’t Sit on the Sidelines and Be Climate Deniers,’ Dominion VP Warns Natural Gas Industry

• Possible pipeline risks open new probe against Dominion

• A church is fighting back against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Woman rides horses across three states to protest Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Will Corporate ‘Clout’ Kickstart Atlantic Coast Pipeline?

• Feds want to know health effects of coatings used in Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Mayors push for pipeline project

• What the Chickahominy Power Station Shows Us About How Environmental Injustice Persists in Virginia

• Virginia Legislators Promoting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Have Big Personal Investments in the Pipeline’s Owners

• Pipeline backers set stage for Appalachian Trail fight

• Change Virginia’s ‘hush and hurry’ tendency on environmental regulation

• Woman rides along pipeline route

• Virginia isn’t making the grade for environmental justice

• Natural Gas Shortage? What Natural Gas Shortage?

• After pipeline feud, Virginia nonprofit aims to reunite community with solar

• Opposition to pipeline continues

• ACP Would Cost NC $20 Billion, a Cruel Hoax — News Release from Energy Justice NC Coalition

• Which Would You Prefer: Pipelines or Trucks?

• Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Files Brief Supporting Environmental Justice for Historic African-American Community in Virginia

• Pipeline project milestones continue through 2019

• ‘They care about corporations:’ Landowners demonstrate pipeline project’s toll

• Democratic legislators call on court to overturn Union Hill permit

• Virginia Pipeline Projects Could Drive Voters to the Polls

• Dominion confident it will win Atlantic Coast Pipeline legal challenges

• Pipeline project milestones continue through 2018

• Broken Ground

• Commentary: It’s time for Virginia to power a clean energy future

• Dominion’s projects could cost ratepayers $29 more per month by 2023

• At Long Last, Dominion Decides It’s Game On for Offshore Wind

• Proposed pipeline project hits 5-year mark

• Solicitor general, ACP seek more time to appeal pipeline case to Supreme Court

• ‘That’s part of our responsibility’: Faith leaders lead march in protest of Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Q&A: Climate leader works to shape ‘environmenal awakening’ in Virginia

• Dominion Responds to Calls for Deregulation

• Dominion Energy Is Putting the Brakes on Dividend Growth

• Virginia Senators Urged to Protect Appalachian Trail

• Court of appeals asked to reject 2nd pipeline permit

• Tech giants pressure Dominion for more storage, renewables, less gas in Virginia

• Solar + storage bypassed in Dominion Virginia’s resource plan

• 4th Circuit casts critical eye on Atlantic Coast permits

• Construction delays frustrate Dominion, investors

• Coalition from left, right calls on state to break up utilities, deregulate energy; Dominion bristles

• Riding the pipeline path

• Va. won’t cap CO2 with 9 other states — for now

• Dominion keeps trying to pull the wool over our eyes

• NC Democrat faces ethics complaint over work for Duke Energy, Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline Won’t Be Finished Until 2021 – If At All

• Little Valley resident presses federal regulators for pipeline coating information

• Property owners protest pipeline procurement process

• Dominion Energy’s new carbon reduction goal will mean slowdown in emissions reduction pace

• Ralph Northam Says He’s Committed to Racial Equity. So Why is He Ignoring Union Hill?

• City pipeline challenge submitted to federal appeals court

• Neglect of 5-mile pipeline access road questioned

• Our ancestors’ voices are begging us to stand up

• Bath EMS meets with Dominion over safety concerns

• Pipeliners shift to survival mode

• State air board recommends joining regional carbon reduction group; new members appointed by Northam take seats

• State tells feds condemnation lawsuit improper

• What we have here is a failure to communicate

• Pipeline Case Brief: FERC Enables Environmental Injustice

• N.C. leaders seek pipeline stoppage, urge FERC to suspend

• Citing Environmental Justice Concerns, Virginia State Conference NAACP Urges Federal Appeals Court to Stop Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Pipelines Plagued by Lawsuits and Delays

• Wild Virginia expects Dominion bill on the horizon

• WV on the line: Members of Lewis County, WV, community discuss local impact of Atlantic Coast Pipeline shutdown

• Dominion Energy is fooling no one

• Governor Northam Announces Launch of ConserveVirginia

• Virginia legislature blocks Northam cap-and-trade initiative

• Environmental activists fight Atlantic Coast Pipeline from the sky

• Slip remediation in Lewis County, WV, to begin in two weeks

• ACP proponents, opponents dispute fallout from work stoppage

• Retailers Still Push To Escape Dominion Monopoly

• Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy: Dominion Energy’s Attempt to Walk Away from Energy Efficiency Commitment Calls Into Question Their Ability to Negotiate in Good Faith

• Briefing: Atlantic Coast Pipeline – Risk Upon Risk

• Dominion confident in its troubled pipeline project

• Pipeline risky business, investors warned

• Lynn Good says Duke Energy needs Atlantic Coast Pipeline — or ‘Plan B’

• Dominion Energy bows to pressure on energy efficiency spending

• A revised generation plan leaves Dominion’s case for its pipeline in shambles

• Investors worry about proposed pipeline project

• Cooper Administration rebuffs investigators, won‘t let employees cooperate on pipeline inquiry

• ACP On The Trail To The Supreme Court

• Remain vigilant, pipeline opponents told

• Dominion Energy continues fight for future of Atlantic Coast Pipeline project

• Senate passes added whistleblower protections by unanimous vote

• 4th Circuit decision prompts Wall Street concern over pipeline

• Citizen oversight of Virginia’s environmental regulations increasingly looks like a farce

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction unlikely to recommence prior to September

• Student Reporters in West Virginia Find Atlantic Coast Pipeline Offers Only Two Dozen Permanent Jobs

• Pipeline progress thwarted

• Court rejects pipeline developers’ request to overturn AT decision

• William Limpert column: Pipelines put health and environment at risk – and we don’t need them anyway

• Bills to Protect Landowners in Pipeline Cases Fail

• Walmart stuck with Dominion, setting up potential fight

• Al Gore, civil rights leader William Barber call on Northam to seek forgiveness through action

• Pipeline work proceeds despite court ordered stay

• Pipeline hits new setbacks

• 4th Circuit hearing on Atlantic Coast Pipeline not expected until May

• Gas cost bill passes House, but dies in committee

• Time for Dominion to cut its losses on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER: Natural-gas pipeline gets a needed second look

• Dominion Energy pledges 50 percent cut in methane by 2030, but pipeline opponents unswayed

• Dump Dominion

• SELC asks federal regulators to stop pipeline project

• Atlantic Coast permit pileup: Where things stand

• The Pipeline vs. The Trail: How the A.T. Saved the South – for now

• Our View: Is this a pause or a crash for gas pipeline?

• Dominion “Still Committed” to Building Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• ACP Cost Bill Passes House With Bipartisan Vote

• Gov. Cooper wants public airing of GOP’s questions about Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline on shakier ground as legal challenges add up

• Neighbors report new sinkhole near pipeline path

• Pipeline politics? Maybe so, but NC still needs answers

• Bill limiting pipeline costs to ratepayers advancing

• Breathing while black: A Dominion compressor station would disadvantage a historically black community in Virginia

• National Park Service reconsiders permit, creating uncertainty for $7B Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Bad news for environmental justice in Virginia

• Governor Cooper Refusing To Let Pipeline Workers Be Interviewed

• In wake of compressor station vote, Northam’s order reconstitutes environmental justice advisory council

• Former state board member was accused of ‘working for the opposition’ after raising concerns about pipeline construction damage

• SCC allows Dominion to improve security, but denies much of grid plan as too costly, too soon

• Timing of federal case could add $1B to Atlantic Coast Pipeline costs

• Virginia Air Board Member Who Approved a Controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline Permit Has Links to a Dominion Gas Partner

• ACP pipeline delay having negative economic impact

• Gazette editorial: Who are the real rogues?

• Straight answers needed on pipeline

• Air board unanimously approves Buckingham compressor permit

• Court rejects pipeline company’s request to expedite

• Indian tribes offered $1 million in pipeline deal

• Energy Lobbyist Calls for Legislature to Condemn ‘Rogue’ Enviros

• Hampton Roads urgently needs the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• As court challenges pile up, gas pipeline falls behind

• Rev. Paul Wilson fought natural gas pipeline project in Buckingham: ‘It’s taken a toll on me’

• A tale of two pipelines and the conscience of our state

2018

• 4th Circuit Court nixes pipeline permit

• Shutdown of pipeline project sought

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline sues Nelson County over zoning decision

• Virginia regulators unexpectedly delay decision on controversial gas project

• Nelson native spreads knowledge of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Administration releases thousands of Atlantic Coast Pipeline documents

• Clean Virginia: Most Virginians should be paying $250 less each year on energy bills

• ‘If I were Dominion I’d be panicked:’ Federal court vacates another Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit

• Court vacates key permit for pipeline

• More hurdles block pipeline plan

• In first, Virginia regulators reject Dominion Integrated Resource Plan

• Big company, big dollars, small community: Dominion deal sparks dissent in community facing gas project

• Accusing GOP of ‘political showmanship,’ Cooper’s office seeks public records on pipeline probe

• Mallek expresses regret over county’s acceptance of pipeline mitigation funds

• Northam’s struggle to explain air board move suggests it’s exactly what it appears to be

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline hits another speed bump in Nelson County

• Historic Bath site rebukes pipeline plans

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline storage yard will be in Fishersville, avoids need for review

• $5M in pipeline funds to support new Albemarle park

• ‘Ugly episode:’ Northam allies slam his decision to alter board before Dominion vote

• Northam’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline interference disappointing, but not really surprising

• Va. NAACP supports some aspects of gas facility in historic black community, surprising opponents

• BREAKING: Just Days Before Vote on Crucial Fracked-Gas-Pipeline Compressor Station in Union Hill, Dominion Energy Busy Buying Off Opposition, Spreading NAACP Letter, Creating “Fear and Confusion”

• ‘Working papers’ exemption claimed to shield governor’s calendar amid pipeline permit uproar

• The Virginia air board members Northam replaced had expired terms. So do 235 other appointees

• Pipeline water crossing permits suspended

• Gov. Cooper should provide information on the pipeline deal

• Video: Sinkhole opens on Swoope farm

• NC lawmakers will hire investigators to look at governor’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund

• Workers make way for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Staunton takes Atlantic Coast Pipeline concerns to federal court

• Virginia regulators balk at voting on pipeline permit affecting historic African American community

• Court orders temporary halt of W.Va. water crossing authorizations for ACP pipeline project

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline costs reach $7B

• Virginia has a pipeline problem

• ACP On Horseback Is A Journey That Will Make A Statement

• County board of zoning appeals denies Atlantic Coast Pipeline storage yard request

• Dominion sets historic Bath site mitigation plan

• Governor’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice to Go Away – Literally

• Virginia’s proposed carbon rule gets lower emissions cap, adds environmental justice component

• The con at the heart of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Pipeline firm wants federal approval to build in Virginia

• Virginia regulators grant key approvals to Atlantic Coast pipeline, clearing the way for construction

• Community to host its own meeting on proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline storage yard

• FERC gives green light to tree cutting at Buckingham compressor site

• ‘Robeson Rises’ pipeline documentary wins Indigo Moon Film Festival award

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline set to destroy rare Bath County old-growth forest

• OP-ED: The injustices of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Enviros Keep Pressure on FERC to Again Halt All ACP Construction

• Opinion: The rich have entitlements most of us don’t

• Highlanders weigh future of Hayfields Farm

• Don’t miss this chance

• Robeson County activists challenge Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• More work needed protect from pipeline construction

• Main: What’s good for Dominion isn’t good for Virginia- Opinion

• Forest Service emails raise questions about pipeline approval, catch judge’s eye

• Appeals court judge takes aim at U.S. Forest Service role in approving pipeline

• Woman traces pipeline path on horseback

• Augusta County zoning board tables Dominion Pipeline storage yard, yet again

• Augusta Farm Bureau opposes pipeline project

• Valley Conservation Council names new director

• Fourth Circuit issues stay on pipeline a 3rd time

• West Augusta pipe yard is putting the ‘cart before the horse’

• SELC challenges new permits for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Dominion Objects to Testimony on Pipeline Cost

• State water board chair resignation wanted

• FERC allows construction to resume on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Do-it yourself regulatory oversight

• Legislators updated on two, billion-dollar pipeline projects

• Opponents to appeal Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction

• ‘As if we don’t exist:’ Opponents call on air board to reject pipeline compressor station permit

• Visitor to Bath County tours property in pipeline path

• Hey environmentalists, maybe he’s just not that into you

• Dominion’s 600-mile gas pipeline heading in direction of South Carolina

• Federal Court Pulls Natural Gas Pipeline Permits

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline staging yard public hearing leads to 30 day delay on permit vote

• Augusta Senator weighs in on pipelines

• Pipeline coating believed to be deadly

• Opponents ask governor to block pipeline

• Atlantic Coast Water Crossing Permit Holds Up as Court Denies Enviro Challenge

• In Virginia, governor and appointees at odds over gas pipelines

• Virginia’s high court passes on chance to stand up to Dominion for conflicts of interest on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• State scientists confirm more sightings of endangered bumblebee along pipeline route

• Editorial: On pipelines, Northam finds middle ground hard to hold

• State agencies failed to act, groups assert

• Virginia governor advised to freeze permits for Atlantic Coast, Mountain Valley gas pipelines

• The Baptists and the yogis join to fight a pipeline

• Pipeline hoping shutdown is resolved within a matter of weeks, not longer

• 5 Virginia Officials Involved in Regulating Dominion Energy Are Invested in the Company

• Feds halt pipeline

• Let it go, Dominion

• Unpacking the Recent Federal Court Rulings Turning Pipeline Development on its Head

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline — thinking about our safety?

• UPDATE: FERC grants permission to continue construction on 3 areas of Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Late Friday Night, FERC’s Trump Appointees Reject Rehearing Request for ACP on 2-1 Vote; Powerful Dissent by Obama-Appointed Commissioner LaFleur; Other Trump Appointee Abstains But Agrees with LaFleur

• Federal Court Throws Out Another Key ACP Permit; ACP faces same problems plaguing now-halted MVP

• Court ruling won’t stop ACP work

• Court of legal, and public, opinion counts

• Private pilots, drone operators to patrol Atlantic Coast Pipeline for violations

• Why is an energy company asking for permission to destroy a masterpiece?

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline developers ask for and receive river crossing permit suspension

• Gas pipeline watchdogs monitor, collect evidence

• WVDEP: Pipeline developers failed to control erosion, follow water quality rules

• In Buckingham’s Union Hill, a center of resistance for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dominion brings in a ringer

• City installs water line as ACP work ramps up

• Slow your roll

• FERC clears Atlantic Coast Pipeline for construction in North Carolina

• Pipeline traffic vexes Route 678 residents

• CASEY: ‘Under-the-radar’ law, and vacancy on SCC, fuel concerns about pipeline safety inspections

• Enviro Groups File Supreme Court of Virginia Appeal Regarding Special Use Permit for the Proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Nelson County Service Authority denies pipeline proposal

• Thanks to FOIA by Wild Virginia, We Now Know That Pipeline Interests Have Deluged Virginia DEQ with Thousands of “Astroturfed,” Pro-Pipeline Postcards, Emails, etc. Spewing B.S. Talking Points

• Dominion Remains in Extremist ALEC as ExxonMobil Joins “exodus of firms from lobbying group”

• Pipeline sites moving forward

• Report: Dominion aims to sell pair of gas-fired plants for $1.5B

• Gov. Northam: These natural gas pipelines aren’t being done ‘right’

• Pipeline equipment moved from Staunton Tractor lot ahead of zoning appeal hearing

• Dominion increased political spending while pushing for law

• Virginia Supreme Court upholds pipeline survey law, but with dissent

• Federal Court Asked To Halt ACP Construction

• Little public input in decision to route pipeline through WV state forest

• Water board to weigh pipeline comments

• Portions of Atlantic Coast Pipeline authorized to proceed

• Nelson County board deadlocks on Atlantic Coast Pipeline water vote

• Environmental Justice Complaint filed with EPA against Virginia DEQ over ACP

• Group Files Complaint in Hopes of Halting Atlantic Coast Pipeline Construction

• Endangered bee believed in pipeline path

• Recent pipeline explosions worry Va. residents about Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Virginia State Legislators File Comments Urging State Water Control Board to Conduct Stream-By-Stream Analysis of Gas Pipelines’ Impacts on Water Quality

• Nash protesters pressure Gov. Cooper to plug Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Godwin won’t sign pact with ACP partners

• Environmental groups file petition to stop Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction

• Waynesboro’s Lewis wins Demo primary; Stewart gets GOP Senate nod

• Federal agency approves some in-stream pipeline work during fish-spawning season

• Va. Secretary visits landowners affected by pipeline

• News Alert – Wintergreen Property Owners Request DEQ Intervention on Army Corps of Engineers Approval

• Commission hears pipeline concerns

• Augusta urges water control board, DEQ to conduct more stream analyses

• Are The Feds Cherry-Picking Data To Force Pipelines Through Vulnerable Communities?

• Compressor anxiety: Historic African American community alleges environmental racism

• State takes pipeline comments until June 15

• Northam Can Stop The Pipelines Right Now

• Draft Statement from Virginia Advisory Council on Environmental Justice Calls for New Gas Infrastructure Moratorium, Stream-by-Stream Assessment

• New State Environmental Justice Board Faces Rocky Start

• State Water Control Board is doing its duty well

• Pipeline Bombshell: Even Dominion Energy Says Mountain Valley Pipeline Contractor Is Incompetent

• New challenges for the disputed Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Pipeline developer, opponents stake out positions

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction begins with groundbreaking in Lewis County

• Dominion Energy files documentation for full construction of ACP

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Civil Rights Complaint After Key Permit Is Blocked

• Audio: Will Cleveland of SELC on Dominion’s Sleazy Self-Dealing, $2 Billion Cost to “Captive Customers” of Atlantic Coast Pipeline; No New Jobs or Economic Growth

• Official: Most pipeline work can go on despite tossed permit

• Federal court suspends pipeline construction

• FERC lets Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction begin in West Virginia

• Volunteer brigade deploys drones and maps

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline opponents say state ignored minorities’ civil rights

• At Dominion shareholder meeting, pipeline opponents address CEO directly in what’s become an annual airing of grievances

• Nelson County considers contract to supply water during Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction

• Joe and Betsy Hester: No need for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Democratic chairs issue statement urging Northam to block pipelines

• Dominion put two surprises in its annual resource plan report

• Pipe storage yard denied

• Arlington Dems Join Loudoun Dems In Urging Stream-by-Stream Analysis on Mountain Valley, Atlantic Coast Pipelines

• Media told karst damage from project is certain

• Dominion’s latest 15-year forecast calls for more solar, but draws fire over demand projections

• Kaine criticizes federal approval for ACP

• Moving forward

• Rivals see opening in Dominion Energy’s political success

• Op-ed: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and How it Got to this Point

• Highland proposes 1 cent tax hike

• Bank of America Leads Finance for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Highland officials need more information

• Sarah Taber: Pipeline? No, renewables will do it better

• Climate change adversely affecting Virginians’ health, study says

• Regulatory board cracks open door for more review of pipeline projects

• Pipelines Bombshell: Terry McAuliffe Held Secret Meetings for 18 Months or More to Negotiate $58 Million Liability Waiver Agreement with Dominion and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• FERC issues notice for Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction to commence

• ‘Tuesday Chainsaw Massacre’: Wintergreen residents fired up about ACP damage

• OPINION: Why WNC should be worried about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• As pipeline work begins, opponents continue fight

• Pipeline incompatible with county goals, citizens warn

• The biggest regional land-clearing project since the federal highway program of the 1960s is now underway in Virginia and West Virginia.

• Bath emergency services, Dominion discuss protocols

• Volunteers, citizens deserve information

• Dominion’s pipeline story doesn’t add up

• Editorial: Norfolk pipeline vote was realistic

• To protect birds and endangered bats, feds reject Atlantic Coast Pipeline bid to continue cutting trees

• Pipeline, comp plan at issue tonight

• Valley Center is central proof ACP must move

• But wait, there’s more …

• USDA issues closure order for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project

• How a Historically Black Virginia Community is Taking On a Pipeline and Rebuking the Gospel of Fossil Fuels

• Pitts: ‘Robeson Rises’ tells story of resistance to Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• DEQ Takes Enforcement Action Against Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Monitors Mobilize Along ACP Route

• Court Halts Pipeline Tree Cutting, Requires Full Review on Historic VA Property

• Developers want more time for pipeline tree clearing

• North Carolina tribes fear impact of Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline can’t enter some private properties, federal judge says

• Pipeline Opponents Vow to Act as Environmental Watchdogs During Construction

• Power bills, access at issue

• Norfolk approves gas pipeline construction beneath drinking water reservoirs

• Coalition files requests to stop pipeline

• Parts of Monongahela Forest to close during Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction

• Governor signs sweeping utility overhaul affecting 3 million Virginia ratepayers

• The only good byproduct of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Citizen activism in our region

• Trees begin to fall, making way for pipeline through Nelson County

• Initiative closely follows pipeline projects

• Documents reveal immense outreach on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• As Atlantic Coast Pipeline moves to construction, groups urge Northam to act

• The giant company that could: How Dominion turned scorn into a big payday

• The South’s Pipe Dreams

• Zoning board nixes permit request for Dominion storage yard

• Highland County plans Dominion public hearings

• DEQ Approves Final Atlantic Coast Pipeline Stormwater Methodology

• Nelson couple grants ‘immediate access’ for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Company surveying Atlantic Coast Pipeline route in NC lacks a current state license

• State issues air quality permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline project

• Pipeline group to set up ‘citizen air force’

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline price tag could hit $6.5B, Duke Energy CEO says — Charlotte Business Journal

• Group: Property values plunge along pipeline route in Highland County, Nelson County

• Pipeline requests get attention on both sides

• $58 million Atlantic Coast Pipeline mitigation agreement draws fire

• After Losing a Vote On the “Double Dip,” Is Dominion Finally Losing Power?

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline receives key federal approvals

• FERC releases pipeline clearcutting pics

• Second Nelson party sued by Atlantic Coast Pipeline under eminent domain

• House passes utility overhaul with crucial amendment aimed at “double dip”

• Pipeline site clearing to begin

• Furtive pipeline deal begs legal answers

• Nelson board dismisses seven pipeline permitting requests, grants deferral on four others

• U.S. Forest Service: Watchdog or unfaithful servant?

• Hadwin: No, cold wave doesn’t show need for pipeline

• Supervisors probe pipeline road impact

• Gov. Cooper hires petroleum industry lobbyist as legislative affairs director

• Augusta zoning board tables Dominion discussion, again

• Highland planners slam pipeline permit applications

• Atlantic Coast opponents plan Pipeline CSI to map violations

• Only way around law for Atlantic Coast Pipeline is to trample over it

• ACP stirs mix of hope for jobs, leeriness by Native Americans

• Lawsuit Filed Against FERC Over Atlantic Coast Pipeline Approval

• Facing new scrutiny in Va., Dominion Energy turns to old friend

• Agency grants request to begin tree cutting for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Duke Energy, ready to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, goes to the top: Gov. Cooper

• Say goodbye to forests, vital habitat

• Dominion repeating pattern of action without foundation

• Anti-pipeline group vows to ‘monitor’ project

• Environmental groups file legal challenges to VA pipeline

• Surprise! Dominion Energy favors latest slew of rate legislation in Richmond

• How the Dominion-SCE&G deal could trample your property rights

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline permitting process unfolds in Nelson

• Pipeline faces another hurdle

• Dominion merger could mean pipeline extension

• Farmer Ryan Blosser takes stand against Dominion pipeline yard

• Dominion applies for permits to create pipeline yards in Highland County

• Kaine discusses pipeline, Trump before packed room in Staunton

• Norfolk delays decision again on gas pipeline that would run under drinking-water reservoirs

• Wilson: Pipeline endangers outdoors-based economy

• Dominion offers to buy SCANA in wake of S.C. nuclear plant failure

• Augusta County residents pack meeting to oppose pipeline storage yard in Churchville

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline inched closer in 2017

• Tracing the anti-pipeline fight in Nelson County

• N.C. officials emphasize due diligence in Atlantic Coast Pipeline analysis

• County tweaks pipeline support letter

• Town: 2017 election outcome a huge win for the environment

2017

• Dominion presses for go-ahead to cut trees

• ACP owners confident

• Pipeline a boon or bust?

• Would the Atlantic Coast Pipeline be the job creator its TV ads claim?

• Steve Haner: It’s time for the General Assembly to help consumers and fix its flawed Dominion bill

• Virginia agency takes unexpected step that could delay gas pipeline project

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline receives key regulatory approval from National Park Service

• Lopez and Rasoul: Pipeline not worth cost to Virginians

• West Virginia sets two public hearings on ACP

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline starts suing NC landowners as construction schedule looms

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline Inks Labor Contracts

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline blows another deadline as NC officials seek more info

• Pipeline opponents urge state board to deny water quality permit ‘without prejudice.’ Can it do that?

• DEP waives 401 Water Quality Certification for ACP

• On hush-hush, feds OK Augusta Co. request

• Water Testing Begins Along Gas Pipeline Route

• Land values sag near pipeline route

• Don’t let all the spin make you dizzy

• Suit challenges pipeline certificates’ legality

• Sierra Club Takes State Corporation Commission to Court Over Failure to Review Atlantic Coast Pipeline Deal

• “Campaign to elect a pipeline:” Va.’s most powerful company ran multi-front fight

• N.C. regulators want analysis of eco-devo impact before approving Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Augusta seeks protection from pipeline

• Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Environmental Racism, and the Appalling Silence of the Good People

• Businessman says pipeline will boost economy

• Water quality permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline still in limbo; DEQ makes fourth request for info

• Nearly 1,000 Wintergreen Property Owners Plan To Sue the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• ‘Outside agitators’ expected in North Carolina to protest pipeline

• Outdoors foundation starts planning for Hayfields farm

• Pipeliners insist they won’t hurt vulnerable candy fish

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline set to seize private property for 600-mile project

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline would hurt black residents most, NAACP says

• Norfolk council delays vote on gas pipeline that would run under drinking-water reservoirs

• Virginia Approves Carbon Cap and Trade Plan

• Regulators issue ‘Letter of Disapproval’ for Atlantic Coast Pipeline; Not a rejection, ACP says

• Virginia’s election results are good news for the planet

• COLUMN: What will gas pipeline do to Staunton’s water supply?

• Opponents pan pipeline project

• Shameful

• Governor responds to pipeline questions

• Environmental groups say Virginia State Water Control Board must deny pipeline water permits

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline to Have All State Permits by Mid-December, Dominion Says

• Dominion creates construction yard for pipeline

• Planners get lowdown on pipeline project

• Pipeline permits cannot pass, groups assert

• Pipeline opponents argue agency’s bias to industry unfair

• Virginia cannot approve proposed natural gas pipelines lacking critical information about impacts on state waters

• ACP builders submit new plans for erosion control

• Our Opinion: County leaders stand up for residents stuck in gas pipeline’s path

• Group of Lawmakers Suggests Calling Pipeline Sabotage Domestic Terrorism

• Feds approve pipelines

• Spineless secrecy – Opinion

• State approves pipeline land swaps

• Wilson County voices concern over Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Property owners plan to continue fighting after FERC decision

• A changing landscape for a power player

• Dominion’s Pipeline: Sticker Shock for Virginia Consumers

• Groups demand feds scrap Dominion pipeline report

• Duke Energy Wants to Build a $5 Billion Pipeline Through Eastern North Carolina. They’ll Have to Go Through Marvin Winstead First.

• NC officials reject environmental plan for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Buppert and Sanner column: Construction of Atlantic Coast Pipeline will destroy lands, endanger state’s waters

• Dominion pipeline talking points don’t stand up to scrutiny

• APNewsBreak: Disputed East Coast pipeline likely to expand

• Proposed pipeline nears crucial phase

• National news cranks up pipeline coverage

• Wilson Community College to hold pipeline summit Saturday

• Dominion defies environmental findings on project

• Pipe storage yards sought in McDowell, Monterey

• Pipeline companies anxious to begin tree clearing

• Senators urge approval of pipeline project

• Heaton Construction to break ground in area for pipeline

• Pro-Atlantic Coast Pipeline Op-Ed Fails to Disclose Funding from Duke Energy

• Virginia’s environmental agency to press ahead on pipeline permits as other states hit the brakes

• North Carolina delays decision on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Study slams FERC scrutiny of ‘self-dealing,’ demand for gas pipelines

• GHGs Must Be Part Of Pipeline Reviews, Enviros Tell FERC

• Burgeoning legal movement pits landowners against pipelines

• Alliance protests urgent pipeline request

• Police cite 19 at pipeline protest in downtown Richmond

• Hundreds of Faith Leaders Across Virginia Protest Gas Pipelines and Pray for Gov. McAuliffe

• Dividing line: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline will change the lay of our land

• Landowners ask federal court to intervene before FERC approves pipeline projects

• Kayakers ‘Paddle Against the Pipeline’ on the James River

• A Few Examples Dominion Energy Should Follow…but Probably Won’t Unless Forced to Do So

• The Buck Stops Here: Time for Virginia’s Leaders to Take Responsibility for the Pipelines

• Agencies favor pipeline path change

• Pipeline Battle

• Federal Court Ruling Gives Pipeline Opponents New Ammo

• Dominion vows ‘habitat’ on pipeline route, but critics scoff

• Court ruling could affect Atlantic Coast Pipeline plan

• Highland County mulls offer to review pipeline

• Thousands urge Virginia governor to stop natural-gas pipeline plan

• State asks Dominion to expand survey

• Anti-Pipeline Groups Hold Third Annual Hands Across our Land Protest

• State, county await pipeline showdown

• Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Declares DEQ Acting in Violation of State Water Quality Standards

• Pipeline can’t help but bring mayhem to Virginia’s environment

• Doing the Math: Dominion’s and FERC’s Own Numbers Tell Us the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a Budget Buster

• Pipeline opponents demand action from state at DEQ hearing

• Virginia Agency May Not Have Properly Vetted Contractor Reviewing Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Start pipeline review over, group demands

• DEQ hosts more public listening sessions on Atlantic Coast Pipeline; new FERC members bode ill for opponents

• Insist that Virginia protect its water

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline plan still threatens NC rivers, drinking water

• Opponents Say Pipeline Would Disproportionately Affect Native Tribes

• We can only fight – and hope — for our future

• Question of need stands in wake of pipeline environmental report

• Pipeline environmental statement: Most impacts will be ‘reduced to less-than-significant levels’

• Dominion must meet conditions before construction

• VOF yet to weigh land swaps

• Forest Service issues draft decision to OK use of National Forest System lands for pipeline

• Sierra Club wants N.C. regulators to withdraw approval for Atlantic Coast Pipeline contracts

• North Carolina pipeline opponents see Gov. Cooper as last ‘line of defense’

• This massive natural gas pipeline will run right through Native American communities

• Nelson resident cites pipeline project patterns

• Pipeline puzzle pieces shamefully missing

• Echoes Of A Dark Past At Virginia’s Standing Rock

• Hundreds Flood Pipeline Hearing

• OPINION: Our Elected Officials and the Pipeline

• Supreme Court of Virginia hands pipeline foes small victory, but project rolls on

• Agencies slow to furnish vital pipeline plans

• FERC should hold trial-like hearing on pipeline

• Dominion CEO charts the company’s low-carbon future

• State agency to accept pipeline comments

• Critics Challenge Dominion’s Pipeline Tactics

• Conflicts of interest pile up on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project

• Anti-Pipeline Hikers Celebrate End of Route with Church Service

• ‘Cannot initiate’ on pipeline DEIS, agency says

• VOF may review Hayfields plan in September

• State official advises Dominion: Integrity of permitting process for Atlantic Coast Pipeline is ‘non-negotiable’

• Coalition implores McAuliffe, DEQ to protect Virginia waters

• Anti-Pipeline Hikers Reach Halfway Point Along Project’s Route

• Feds need a summer mountain day

• Environmental groups: Justification for Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline has ‘eroded’

• Dominion sticks to proposed ACP route

• Pipeline astroturfing continues

• In the pipeline’s path: Property owners object to use of eminent domain

• Virginia’s Power Broker

• In Atlantic Coast Pipeline Battle, Dominion Hires Democratic PR Firm That Created Ads for Virginia Governor

• River groups follow up with questions for DEQ

• Senators press for FERC reform

• Pipeline route walk to start near Bolar on Saturday

• Address transparency concerns, Goodlatte asks

• Michael J. Hirrel: Atlantic Coast Pipeline won’t help Virginians

• Virginia faith leaders oppose fracked-gas pipelines

• Group sues Virginia environmental agency over pipeline permitting

• DEQ director visits area in pipeline path

• Dominion Energy Pulls Out All Stops For Pipeline Win

• Dominion outlines pipeline construction, safety

• Lawyers provide eminent domain advice

• State negates sweeping pipeline water review

• In Home Stretch of Virginia Gubernatorial Race, Resistance to Atlantic Coast Pipeline Grows

• To Lead on Climate, Virginia’s Governor Can and Must Stop Pipelines

• Report highlights Dominion efforts to secure Atlantic Coast Pipeline approval

• Cave survey protesting pipe route through karst

• DEQ acknowledges error, clarifies approach to review of pipelines

• Steep slope plan ‘extensive,’ Dominion says

• Dirty Dominion Pushes Fracked Gas and Super-Expensive Nuclear While Offshore Wind Costs Plummet. Brilliant!

• FERC Delays Final Environmental Impact release: scheduled for July 21st

• Valley Center pipeline route variation no better

• LEPC hears pipeline plans

• McAuliffe: Virginia will regulate carbon emissions; ‘the threat of climate change is real’

• Dominion letter shows why staying neutral on pipeline project could help Northam

• Can Dominion’s Stranglehold on Virginia Politics Be Loosened?

• Sierra Club Files Petition with SCC Seeking Affiliates Act Review Before Dominion Commits to Atlantic Coast Pipeline Deal

• Dominion responds on Valley Center karst

• Hikers visit old forest in the Dominion pipeline path

• Former Obama EPA Official Now Lobbying for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Pipeline planners share safety protocol with local officials

• Mountaintop removal argued in pipeline plan

• The Failed Mountain “Decapitation” Narrative

• Virginia pipeline opponents escalate as governor’s race heats up

• Pipeline foes feel fear, burning rage

• How county pipeline case in Va. Supreme Court could shape eminent domain law

• Research: Atlantic Coast Pipeline would require ‘extensive’ mountaintop removal

• Forest Service’s ‘Independent’ Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Written by Pipeline Company Contractor

• Agency argues pipeline statement short on substance

• US Forest Service seeks revised permit application

• Opinion/Letter: ACP a life-and-death risk at Wintergreen

• Federation Asks for New Pipeline Assessment

• Virginia gas pipeline project clears hurdle

• USFS cites shortcomings in pipeline plan

• Agency urges Dominion to avoid karst terrain

• River groups protest open trench variance

• Pipeline politics stir Virginia governor’s race

• Oppose Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• County weighs in on planned pipeline

• Things are getting real around here

• Citizens group demands withdrawal of pipeline statement

• Will Activists Be Able To Stop The Atlantic Coastal Pipeline?

• Financial experts differ about Dominion risks

• New Atlantic Coast Pipeline documents raise more environmental concerns

• Legal group challenges need for Dominion’s pipeline

• Firm Hired by FERC to Review Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline Linked to Project’s Main Environmental Contractor

• Dominion has no handle on karst, landowners say

• VA Outdoors Foundation says its power is limited

• Dominion’s treatment of landowners ‘abusive’

• Couple battles to save farm

• Local and Climate Activists Unite to Oppose Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Proposed pipeline would negatively impact Shenandoah Mountain

• Nelson supervisors debate commenting on Atlantic Coast Pipeline proposal

• Dominion using its power to trample people

• Dominion charged with ignoring USFS data requests

• Pipeline route near bat habitat

• Senator addresses feds about pipeline project

• Groups demand state regulate Dominion

• Pipeline surveying nearly finished in Nelson

• Activists make 200-mile walk along route of proposed natural gas pipeline in North Carolina

• Study: Dominion understates pipeline’s landslide potential in Nelson County

• Dominion filing lacks specificity, group says

• Letter to the Editor – Pipeline cannot be built without consequence

• Dominion maps USFS access roads, describes build-out for pipeline

• Second suit seeks judicial review of station decision

• Pipeline protesters pass through Johnston County

• Anti-pipeline groups take legal stand with FERC motion

• Mountaintop removal worries neighborhood

• Activists say pipeline environmental assessment ‘appallingly incomplete’

• Boyette calls for ‘transparency and truth’ on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Adventures Afield: Augusta County leads local charge against fracking

• Protest, Support, Controversy Surround Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Pipeline worries are many at agency’s open house

• Pressured agency fields fears over future of conservation program

• Crowds swell for pipeline discussion in Staunton

• Staunton City Council reaffirms pipeline opposition

• Wall Street intent on planned pipeline

• Crowd delivers feedback on Atlantic Coast Pipeline to FERC

• FERC holds public hearing in Nelson County to help determine future of Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Harrison County Commission writes letter in support of Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Supply Header project

• Opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: “Nobody is saying what’s happening to the little people”

• Augusta County in Dominion’s crosshairs

• Open-space foundation tables easement decision

• McAuliffe backs scrapping deal that protects Dominion from rate review

• Pocahontas Co. Commission Meeting Part 1: Dominion Updates on Pipeline Project

• Meeting for landowners held

• In Wilson, media shut out of FERC public listening session on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• FERC’s Alternative Climate Facts

• Decision on easement conversion for pipeline tabled

• Pipeline opponents urged to fight on

• Perriello comes out against pipeline, and in a shift, says he is skeptical of offshore drilling

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline granted access to survey 29 Nelson properties

• Session so far a ‘mixed bag’ on renewable energy

• Harrison County Commission backs Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Lewis County Commission to consider support for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• OPINION: Pipeline ‘impact statement’ a bloated whitewash

• Unions rally at Capitol to tout Atlantic Coast Pipeline as good for American jobs

• Senator’s bill to end Dominion’s campaign contributions dies

• Riggleman, a contender for Virginia governor, takes on utility giant Dominion

• Endangered bee may sting pipeline plan

• Pipeline project awaits critical state decision

• Duke-Dominion Withheld Gas Pipeline Data, Groups Charge – News Release from NC WARN

• Environmentalists Decry Preliminary Approval of Pipeline

• Folks in the Valley react to President Trump’s approval of pipelines

• Atlantic Coast Pipeline collaborators ‘encouraged’ by Trump’s energy infrastructure push

• Local landowners join forces to stop pipeline

• FERC action disappointing

• Advocates say feds downplaying climate impacts of pipelines

• Dominion reapplies for easement conversions

• Groups denounce agency’s draft statement on proposed pipeline

• Foundation urged again to turn down Dominion

• FERC ignores available pipeline capacity

• No time to let up on process

• Editorial: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline gets a green light, and red herrings

• Feds say Atlantic Coast Pipeline will create jobs; opponents say it’s not worth risk

• Long-awaited draft environmental statement on Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline released

• Dominion’s Own Model Shows That 15,000MW of Solar Would Save Virginia Customers $1.5 Billion

• Where and how the Atlantic Coast Pipeline could affect what’s along its route

• Foundation works with Dominion on conversion

• Governor McAuliffe applauded by Southside businesses for Atlantic Coast Pipeline support

• Dominion listed among America’s best corporate citizens by Forbes

• Dominion Power and Its Sponsored Blog Embrace a Post-Truth World

• Pipeline plan can’t move ahead, SELC contends

• McAuliffe doubles down on pipeline support, hints at economic prospects

• Group alleges Buckingham panel illegally OK’d permit

• Property Owners Spoil Dominion’s Party in Richmond

• Those few ACP jobs will be shortlived

2016

• Slippery slopes

• ACP, station not needed or wanted

• High job demand at pipeline construction expo

• Foundation clarifies position on easements

• Opinion/Letter: Pipeline poll wasn’t exactly objective

• Pipeline opponents find hope in Standing Rock decision

• Let’s get this right

• Buckingham planners act on proposed pipeline compressor station

• Editorial: ACP is a no-brainer

• More pipeline questions posed

• Tom Farrell and Bob Blue: Dirty Politics and Dirty Dominion Power

• Forest service adds new pipeline rules

• Dominion to address karst uncertainty

• Tap access in the future: County will gain control of 200 acres on lateral gas line

• Buckingham residents call for community veto of Atlantic Coast Pipeline Compressor Station

• 3 N.C. Protests Target Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Mac Legerton: Pipelines and passions

• Virginians Launch ‘Pipeline Pledge of Resistance’ to Stop MVP and ACP Projects

• Property rights at heart of anti-pipeline ‘revival’ gathering in Nelson

• Agency echoes local, forest service pipeline project worries

• Anti-pipeline group to hold property rights revival Sunday at RVCC

• Help Friends of Water Deliver Supplies to Standing Rock Camp

• Forest Service questions ‘best-in-class’ measures

• Pipeline construction on mountains spells degradation

• Film on pipeline effects in Bath County debuts Friday

• The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Could Be the East Coast’s DAPL

• Landowner: ‘Dominion would just dig us up and throw us out’

• Citizens oppose massive gas compressor for pipeline in Buckingham County

• Let’s work together to prevent the new pipeline

• Corn protesting Atlantic Coast Pipeline harvested

• SELC challenges Atlantic Coast Pipeline route

• Poll: Virginia voters back Atlantic Coast Pipeline, kinda, sorta

• Critic calls FERC Pipeline approval process flawed

• “This American Land” Features Shenandoah Mountain

• Pastor arrested during protest

• Widow seeks to ‘protect my heritage’ against proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Opposition to Atlantic Coast Pipeline Heats Up

• Bart Hinkle: Pipeline brings a property-rights fight to Virginia

• Letter to FERC Raises Concerns Over Alternate Route for Proposed Pipeline

• Pipeline company revisits karst

• 23 Arrested Protesting McAuliffe’s “Stunning Lack of Political Courage” on Climate

• Op-ed: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Consequences for Virginia

• Op-ed: Pipeline test case significant

• McAuliffe says he lacks authority to stop Atlantic Coast Pipeline

• Pipeline protesters are real

• Concern for the New Generation calls for community veto of natural gas station

• Opponents slam pipeline plans

• Staunton City Council weighs in on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

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