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Take Action North Carolina, Duke’s carbon plan is a failure for climate and communities

by DrewAction, allies July 26, 2022July 27, 2022Comments are Disabled

Earlier this spring, Duke Energy finally released a draft plan to reduce global-warming carbon emissions in the Carolinas. Even getting them to unveil a plan was a big struggle, and required an act of the Legislature. Sadly, but not surprisingly, Duke’s carbon plan is a failure for our climate and communities. Local environmental and social …

Tell FERC: no more excuses, deny the MVP extension request.

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 7, 2022July 13, 20224 comments

** Good News Update ** After hammering them with more than 5,000 comments and emails, FERC has agreed to extend the comment period on MVP’s extension request (a little) to July 29. This means we have two more weeks to keep gathering comments before we need to deliver. Here’s how to help with the new …

Tell President Biden to repeal Nationwide Permit 12

Tell President Biden: Close the Nationwide Permit loophole. No more pipelines!

by DrewAction, Home May 26, 2022May 26, 20221 comment

Greedy companies are using a loophole in federal law called Nationwide Permit (NWP) 12 to ram through fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure at the cost of our climate and communities. But thanks to an executive order from President Biden regarding environmental justice, climate change and drinking water, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) …

Tell FERC not to back down on Climate and Environmental Justice!

Stop FERC’s cowardly Betrayal of climate and environmental justice

by DrewAction, allies, Home April 20, 2022Comments are Disabled

In February 2022 , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued two new rules updating how the commission reviews and approves new pipelines, Liquefied “natural” gas (LNG), gas export facilities and more. The first rule updated the 1999 rules on Natural Gas permitting to, for the first time, include environmental justice impacts. The second rule …

Tell banks to stop funding climate chaos

Become a customer for climate justice and bank on action, not on climate change

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 14, 2022March 14, 20221 comment

Since the Paris Agreement was signed, Wall Street banks have loaned nearly $1.2 trillion to the fossil fuel industry. That money isn’t coming from the government, or from rich investors — it’s coming from regular customers with bank accounts and credit cards just like you and me. Now, customers like you and me are fighting …

Tell FERC to stop work on the MVP, Now

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 14, 2022February 20, 20229 comments

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, …

Sign now to tell the EPA to crack down on methane pollution

by DrewAction, Home January 26, 2022January 26, 2022Comments are Disabled

The EPA has a chance to crack down on methane pollution and reverse the Biden Administration’s terrible track record (so far) on fossil fuels Biden’s failures are numerous: They permitted 34% more oil and gas drilling in their first year than Trump; the Department of Energy is investing billions of dollars in false solutions like …

Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to Defend the Gulf!

by DrewAction, allies, Home December 6, 2021December 6, 20211 comment

For far too long the Gulf of Mexico has been a sacrifice zone to fossil fuels. Communities on the Gulf coast face some of the highest rates of pollution, poverty, and extraction – and are also hit year after year by climate fueled super storms. The Gulf was the first place that President Biden sold …

Tell the Army Corps to shut the MVP down for good!

by DrewAction, allies November 19, 2021November 19, 20212 comments

The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is four years behind schedule, $3 billion over budget and has already racked up $2.7 million in fines. The project should have been stopped or canceled dozens of times, but instead they are applying for another permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. If approved, it will allow the MVP …

It’s past time to shut down Aliso Canyon for good!

by DrewAction, allies November 15, 2021November 15, 2021Comments are Disabled

It’s been six years since the Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Facility blowout – the worst in US history that forced thousands to evacuate and was a climate and health disaster. And this week, November 18th, will mark the two years since Governor Newsom directed the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to shut down the facility …