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.
Racism and ecological injustice combine in ‘reckless, racist’ Atlantic Coast Pipeline fight
- – Think – 2/3/20
‘Environmental Justice Is Not Merely a Box to Be Checked’
- – The New York Times – 1/23/20
In Virginia, anti-pipeline activists feel ‘justice was served’ with court ruling
- – Energy News Network – 1/15/20
General Assembly will decide whether to build environmental justice into Virginia law
- – Virginia Mercury – 1/13/20
4th Circuit nixes key permit for Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, citing environmental justice concerns
In Virginia, Union Hill and racial tensions have put environmental justice back on the map
- – Virginia Mercury – 12/5/19
Stand for equality and clean energy
- – Suffolk News-Herald – 10/21/19
The hidden power behind the Chickahominy gas power plant proposal
- – Virginia Mercury – 10/9/19
Legal Challenge to FERC Certificate Scheduled for October 16 Oral Argument
The challenge to the Federal Energy Commission’s (FERC) approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline been scheduled for oral argument on October 16 before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The plaintiffs are 14 conservation groups, including several ABRA members, that are represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and Appalachian Mountain Advocates.