An effort to develoop recommendations for incorporation environmental justice principles into the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) programs and actions, announced last September by the agency, will soon begin interviewing environmental justice stakeholders, non-government organizations, local govrnment offiicials and others in coming weeks.
Argument preview: Supreme Court pipeline case nears
- – The Recorder – 2/20/20
Dominion Energy net-zero goal undercut by pipeline expansion, “renewable natural gas” offset scheme
- – Energy & Policy Institute – 2/13/20
Dominion Energy: Renewable Energy Leader
- – Forbes – 2/18/20
FERC Restarts New Fish and Wildlife Permit Process for ACP
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has requested in a February 10 letter that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reinitiate formal consultation with Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC (ACP, LLC) to develop a new Biological Opinion (BO) and Incidental Take Statement (ITS) on the company’s proposed pipeline.
Army Corps Warned Not to Issue New Permit for ACP
The Norfolk District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has been told that it would violate legal requirements should it reinstate the suspended verification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) using the Corps’ Nationwide 12 Permit (NWP12). The argument was set forth in a February 11 letter from the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC),
Feds seek to resume Atlantic Coast Pipeline Construction
- – The Recorder – 2/13/20
Dominion agrees to buy Southern stake in Atlantic Coast Pipeline as project costs soar
Dominion Pipeline Clashes With Appalachian Trail at High Court
- – Bloomberg Environment – 2/10/20
America needs to stop its natural gas pipeline mania
- – The Week – 2/10/20