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February 8, 2025

DEC approves expansions for Hudson Valley stations along Iroquois pipeline, Times Union

H. Rose Schneider, February 8, 2025 The State Department of Environment Conservation approved permits Friday to expand two Hudson Valley compressor stations along the Iroquois gas pipeline. The DEC permits allow another 12,000 horsepower of compression — a process that repressurizes gas as it moves along the pipeline — at stations in Athens and Dover

Categories: Delayed, Natural Gas, Pipeline, Public Interest Group

January 27, 2025

With Trump’s new pro-timber order, Alaska conservationists poised to rehash Tongass Roadless Rule, Alaska Public Media

Jack Darrell, Michael Fanelli, Published January 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM AKST In the first two days of his new term, President Donald Trump signed more than 200 executive orders. One was aimed at accessing more natural resources in Alaska. It attempts to roll back protections on over 9 million acres of Tongass National Forest,

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis

January 9, 2024

Alaska Challenges Reinstated Protections for Tongass National Forest, Columbia Climate School

Aliyah Elfar, January 9, 2024 Though it’s hardly the most famous forest in the US, Alaska’s mighty Tongass National Forest happens to be the largest, stretching nearly 17 million acres or an area roughly the size of West Virginia. The Tongass is also a major American carbon sink, responsible for 44% of

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis

September 27, 2021

PennEast becomes the latest to scuttle a natural gas pipeline project, Globe and Mail ($)

SCOTT DISAVINO , REUTERS, PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 PennEast Pipeline said on Monday it would stop developing a proposed pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, the latest in a series of natural gas lines to run aground due to legal and regulatory challenges. The project was one of several proposed in recent

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study, Natural Gas, Pipeline

September 27, 2021

PennEast has stopped pursuing gas pipeline project due to N.J. regulatory hurdles, Lehighvalleylive.com

Updated: 2:54 p.m. | Published: 11:50 a.m., September 27, 2021, by Pamela Sroka-Holzmann | For lehighvalleylive.com and Rudy Miller | For lehighvalleylive.com Despite a U.S. Supreme Court victory allowing PennEast Pipeline to condemn land in New Jersey over the objections of state government, a consortium of energy companies behind the project announced

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study, Natural Gas, Pipeline

September 27, 2021

PennEast cancels pipeline project — months after winning its case at the U.S. Supreme Court

Company cites lack of environmental permits from N.J. Susan PhillipsSeptember 27, 2021 | 12:40 PMUpdated: 2021-09-27 17:13:36 After years of battling New Jersey over permits to build a natural gas pipeline from Northeast Pennsylvania to Mercer County — a fight that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — PennEast has canceled

Categories: Cancelled/Terminated, Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study, Natural Gas, Pipeline

Dakota Access Pipeline gains win-win with court ruling and Biden inaction, S&P Global ($)

24 May 2021 | 19:02 UTC The future of the 570,000 b/d Dakota Access Pipeline is still at risk, but the primary crude artery out of the Bakken Shale is in a much stronger position after a federal court ruling kept the oil flowing and the Biden administration opted against intervening on an existing

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Indigenous, Oil, Pipeline

Dakota Access Still Faces Existential Threats Despite Court Win, Bloomberg Law ($)

Ellen M. Gilmer • May 24, 2021, 5:31 AM The Dakota Access oil pipeline faces continued threats to its existence, even after surviving another shutdown battle in federal court. It’s familiar territory for the embattled Energy Transfer LP project that seems perpetually unable to shake off legal and political hazards. A federal district

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Indigenous, Oil, Pipeline

Supreme Court Feud Set To Shake Up Eminent Domain, Gas, E&E News

Niina H. Farah, E&E News reporter • Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 The Supreme Court today will wade into a battle over construction of the PennEast natural gas pipeline that has escalated into a clash over federal energy law and states’ rights. The justices will hear oral arguments this morning on

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study, Natural Gas, Pipeline

New Jersey’s Gas Pipeline Veto, Wall Street Journal (Editorial Board) ($)

The Supreme Court hears Trenton’s claim to regulatory supremacy. By The Editorial Board • April 26, 2021 6:37 pm ET The Biden Administration is no fan of fossil fuels. But even it disagrees with New Jersey’s slick argument in a case the Supreme Court will hear Wednesday that the Constitution gives

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study, Natural Gas, Pipeline

In the climate change fight, the Interior Department becomes a battlefield, Washington Post ($)

Administration’s review of the federal oil and gas program, personnel decisions have sparked pushback. By Juliet Eilperin and Joshua Partlow • April 16 2021 at 5:35 p.m. EDT In the weeks after President Biden’s inauguration, as the oil industry was facing a far less welcoming White House, a ConocoPhillips executive went pheasant hunting

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Natural Gas, Oil

US federal appeals court denies DAPL rehearing request, S&P Global ($)

23 Apr 2021 | 15:39 UTC Houston — A federal appeals court quickly denied a rehearing request for the vacating of necessary permitting for the Dakota Access Pipeline, still leaving the fate of a potential shutdown of the Bakken Shale crude oil artery up to the federal judge who previously ordered the pipeline shuttered. MORE &

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Indigenous, Oil, Pipeline

Future of ‘Broken’ Oil Program Under Review, Interior Head Says, BNN Bloomberg

Jennifer A. Dlouhy • Bloomberg News • Apr 2, 2021 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government program for selling drilling rights on federal land is so “fundamentally broken” that changes could be needed to address climate change and ensure taxpayers get a greater value from extracted oil and gas, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Natural Gas, Oil

Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will cost Canadians billions, SFU study shows, Globe and Mail ($)

Emma Graney • Energy Reporter • Published April 1, 2021 EDMONTON The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion stands to lose Canada between $3.2-billion and $18.5-billion, according to a new benefit-cost analysis study from a group of British Columbia researchers. Researchers from Simon Fraser University examined close to 20 business scenarios for the pipeline expansion, but

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study, Marine, Oil, Pipeline, Terminal/Storage

Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will lead to $11.9B in losses for Canada, study says, CBC

SFU team says several factors mean project should be shelved but industry expert disagrees Bethany Lindsay · CBC News · Posted: Mar 31, 2021 1:00 AM PT | Last Updated: April 1 The estimated construction cost for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has ballooned from $5.4 billion to $12.6 billion. (Credit: Jason Franson/The Canadian

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study, Marine, Oil, Pipeline, Terminal/Storage

Alaska files to defend Tongass exemption from Roadless Rule, Seattle Times ($)

By The Associated Press • March 27, 2021 at 8:35 am | Updated March 27, 2021 at 8:36 am JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska and several other groups have filed to defend the Tongass National Forest’s exemption from a rule that limits development on federal land. The filing fights back against a group

Categories: Coal, Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study

Deb Haaland Becomes First Native American Cabinet Secretary, New York Times ($)

The Senate confirmed Ms. Haaland to lead the Interior Department. She’ll be charged with essentially reversing the agency’s course over the past four years. By Coral Davenport • March 15, 2021 WASHINGTON — Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico made history on Monday when the Senate confirmed her as

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Natural Gas, Oil

Unpacking the US CLEAN Future Act, World Resources Institute

By Dan Lashof, Devashree Saha, Karl Hausker, Greg Carlock, Kevin Kennedy and Tyler Clevenger • March 12, 2021 U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, together with subcommittee chairs Bobby Rush and Paul Tonko, introduced the CLEAN

Categories: Coal, Environmental Group, Job Study

The Biden era of climate-aware forest policy, The Hill

By Mike Dombeck And Jim Furnish, Opinion Contributors • 03/04/21 04:30 PM ESTThe Views Expressed By Contributors Are Their Own And Not The View Of The Hill One of the most egregious acts of the previous administration’s public lands agenda was the October decision to revoke protections for 9 million acres

Categories: Coal, Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Job Study

House Democrats introduce bill with pathway to 100% clean energy by 2035, Utility Dive

By Catherine Morehouse • Published March 3, 2021 (Source: Creative Commons) Dive Brief: House Democrats unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would bring economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero by 2050, and cut emissions 50% below 2005 levels by 2030 or sooner.The CLEAN Future Act proposes a national Clean Energy Standard

Categories: Coal, Environmental Group, Job Study

February 22, 2021

Alberta appeals federal environmental law, Globe and Mail ($)

EMMA GRANEY > ENERGY REPORTER, EDMONTON, PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 22, 2021 Alberta’s latest case against the federal government began in Alberta’s Court of Appeal on Monday, with the province arguing Ottawa overstepped its jurisdiction when it implemented a new federal assessment law it says is unconstitutional. At the heart of the

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February 9, 2021

Port of Kalama, NWIW appeal Ecology’s methanol permit denial, The Columbian ($)

By Katie Fairbanks • The Daily News • Published: February 9, 2021, 7:28pm The site at the Port of Kalama where NW Innovation Works is proposing a 90-acre methanol plant. (Source: NW Innovation Works) LONGVIEW — The Port of Kalama and Northwest Innovation Works Tuesday appealed the state Department of Ecology’s denial of a

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Marine, Natural Gas, Pipeline, Terminal/Storage

January 27, 2021

Biden, Emphasizing Job Creation, Signs Sweeping Climate Actions, New York Times ($)

The array of directives — touching on international relations, drilling policy, employment and national security, among other things — elevate climate change across every level of the federal government. By Lisa Friedman, Coral Davenport and Christopher Flavelle • Published Jan. 27, 2021 | Updated Feb. 2, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Natural Gas, Oil

January 20, 2021

Biden Cancels Keystone XL Pipeline and Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement, New York Times ($)

In a burst of climate orders, the president also ordered federal agencies to begin the process of reinstating environmental regulations reversed under the Trump administration. By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman • Published Jan. 20, 2021 Updated Feb. 19, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday recommitted the

Categories: Environmental Group, Environmental Impact Analysis, Indigenous, Job Study, Oil, Pipeline

January 19, 2021

Millennium parent company files for Chapter 11; Columbia River site goes back to Alcoa, The Columbian ($)

By Marissa Heffernan • The Daily News • Published January 19, 2021 10:15AM Millennium Bulk Logistics-Longview, a company owned by two coal producers, wants to build an operation in Longview to export 44 million metric tons of coal annually to Asia. (The Columbian files) LONGVIEW — After Millennium Bulk Terminals’ parent company filed for bankruptcy this

Categories: Coal, Government/Regulator, Marine, Rail, Terminal/Storage

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