May 19 update – just a quick note at the end of the week to say: We did it! We did ALL of it! And it’s working! If you didn’t get the chance to tune in, we had a busy morning at FERC with rallies, a non-violent direct action that blocked the driveway entrance to …
Read more “Tune in today to the fight to stop Manchin’s deal, and Manchin’s FERC”
For years we’ve told you how the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rubber stamps virtually every fossil fuel project proposed to them. There’s a new FERC Environmental Justice docket open right now, which builds upon their roundtable discussion last March. They’ve also been ordered by President Biden, under a new Executive Order issued for Earth …
Read more “Tell FERC environmental justice isn’t a box to check”
We have until May 5 to convince the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and New England electrical grid operator (ISO-NE) to clean up the New England grid, and stop investing millions of ratepayer dollars in dirty, inefficient fossil fuel power. Here’s what’s going on. Last month we gave you the good news that, New England’s …
Good news for people who like bad news for coal and fossil fuels: For the first time, New England’s last coal-fired power plant without a shutdown date — the one in Bow, NH that we’ve told you about before — has failed to win funding at a “forward capacity auction” for 2026-27. This is a …
We’ve been telling you for years about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 300+ mile long fracked-gas pipeline from fracking fields in West Virginia near Pennsylvania, through Virginia, and all the way into North Carolina. The project is still years behind schedule, drowning in debt, and which locals have fought on land, in the courts, on the …
Read more “Zombie pipeline MVP is back. Water Protectors take action!”
Tonight is the State of the Union address, where the President visits Congress to tell them his plans for the year ahead, and to brag on his achievements from last year. In the course of the speech tonight, Biden will probably talk about climate change, specifically the Inflation reduction Act and its various tax credits …
Read more “The most important two words at tonight’s State of the Union: Climate. Emergency.”
UPDATED Feb 6 -It’s been a busy week behind the scenes as we prepare a series of actions targeting utilities bad behavior, and especially fracked fossil gas. I was trying to get my head around some news and new reports, so I wrote a long twitter thread that drew some … unexpected reactions. I’ve added …
Read more “Nerdy tweets and utility actions in a post Inflation Reduction Act world”
We’ve been telling you for years about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 300+ mile long fracked-gas pipeline from fracking fields in West Virginia near Pennsylvania, through Virginia, and all the way into North Carolina. The project is still years behind schedule, drowning in debt, and which locals have fought on land, in the courts, on the …
Read more “Tell the Forest Service to speak for the trees, no MVP”
Quick message in solidarity and action with our fierce allies at Beyond Extreme Energy – I joined BXE today at an action targeting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) monthly meeting – the first since Democratic Chair Richard Glick was ousted by Joe Manchin late last year. I didn’t think much of Glick, as I’ve …
Read more “Stop Manchin’s FERC – a report-back and a new report”
The GTN XPress project is a proposal from TC Energy (the same people who brought you the Keystone XL pipeline and other disasters) to increase the volume of a fracked gas pipeline by 150 million cubic feet per day. The existing GTN line is a 1,354 mile long pipeline that cuts through British Columbia, Idaho, …
Read more “From the Coast to Coast to Coast – Tell FERC to Stop Fossil Fuels!”