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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 Joe Biden – we need a climate champ at FERC

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 9, 2021July 9, 2021Comments are Disabled

President Joe Biden is on the cusp of naming a new commissioner to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and this decision will have a huge impact on our climate and clean energy plans – especially Biden’s promise to move all electricity generation in the US to 100% clean, renewable sources for electricity by 2035. …

Call, tweet, and post now to #BuildBackRenewable

by DrewAction, allies May 21, 2021May 21, 20219 comments

Today is the last day of action with our friends at Beyond Extreme Energy to tell Congress to #BuildBackBetter by #BuildBackRenewable & #BuildbackFossilFree. In case you missed it, there’s a link to the message we sent on the first day of action below. If you have 10 minutes today to help, here’s three simple actions …

Join the #BuildBackRenewable days of action

by DrewAction, allies, Home May 19, 2021May 19, 20211 comment

President Biden proposed The American Jobs Plan as a big, bold infrastructure bill to build back better, and invest billions of dollars in clean energy, electric cars and more. But while Biden’s proposal contains a lot of good ideas, it also contains many false solutions and vague definitions that could be turned into benefits for …

Tell FERC: No more variances, time’s up on the MVP!

by DrewAction, allies, Home December 21, 2020December 21, 2020Comments are Disabled

The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is back at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) asking, once again, to be allowed to bend the rules to the breaking point so they can keep building a fracked gas pipeline nobody wants or needs during the pandemic. The MVP is a 303 mile long fracked gas pipeline from …

Tell FERC: Time’s up for the Mountain Valley Pipeline

by DrewAction, allies, Home September 4, 2020September 4, 20206 comments

The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is years behind schedule, drowning in debt, and has no clear path to getting the permits it needs, let alone being built. But that didn’t stop them from going back to FERC and asking for more time. The MVP is a 303 mile long fracked gas pipeline that Equitrans plans to …

Tell FERC to reject the plan to put a Dam next to the Grand Canyon

Stop this Damn plan to put a Dam next to the Grand Canyon

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 1, 2020August 1, 20203 comments

The Navajo Nation, the Hopi and other Native peoples in the Southwest are fighting plans to build three dams next to the Grand Canyon. These dams would drastically impact water flow and ecology in this jewel of the American park system. And to even consider building the dams would require unwelcome desecration of an area …

Bad news about FERC & Jordan Cove

by DrewAction, allies March 20, 2020March 20, 202013 comments

As we feared, and warned only yesterday, in the midst of the global pandemic the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) conditionally approved the Jordan Cove fracked gas export terminal and Pacific Connector pipeline today. The approval is conditioned on Pembina, the Canadian fossil fuel corporation behind the project, qualifying for critical permits from the state …

Sign now to turn FERC into the Federal Renewable Energy Commission

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 10, 20203 comments

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been binging on fossil fuel approvals again. In the last few months they’ve voted on party line to make ratepayers pay more money to subsidize fossil fuels, tried to influence the outcome of court decision in favor of fossil fuels before the trial, and called the fight to …