- – Virginia Mercury – 4/22/21
Council on Environmental Justice asks Northam to institute fossil fuel infrastructure ban
- – Virginia Mercury – 4/16/21
Biden appoints EJ Advisory Council, including Tom Cormons of App Voices
The White House announced March 29 the membership of the new Council on Environmental Quality’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Among the 26 appointees is Tom Corman, Executive Director of Appalachian Voices, an ABRA member. The Council will provide advice and recommendations to the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council on how to address current and historic environmental injustices.
Defense League lobbies for landowner easements
- – Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald – 3/23/21
Biden’s Big Bet: Tackling Climate Change Will Create Jobs, Not Kill Them
- – The New York Time – 3/31/21
Biden announces environmental justice advisers
- – E&E Greenwire – 3/29/21
FERC announces new scoping period for MVP environmental issues
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued on March 16 a notice of scoping and request for public comments regarding environmental issues associated with the pending application (referenced in the above article) to change the method of stream crossings for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Water utilities, state environmental regulators wary of bill that would relax oil and gas tank oversight
- – Charleston Gazette-Mail – 3/15/21
On environmental justice, Democrats split over the best path forward
- – Virginia mercury – 3/12/21
Democrats reintroduce sweeping environmental justice bill
- – E&E Energywire – 3/18/21