CALL TO ACTION ~ Cancel Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)

September 24, 2022

Now Let’s Respond to Multiple “Calls To Action” CTA 1 thru CTA 5, ASAP From Freda Cathcart, Cancel MVP, September 24, 2022 The fight to defeat the Mountain Valley Pipeline has intensified over the last couple of months. MVP received their 4 year FERC extension after a deal was announced to greenlight the MVP in [...]

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Special Exceptions for MVP Certainly Not Justified — Actually Dangerous!

September 23, 2022

Senator Kaine Says MVP Pipeline Deserves No Special Treatment in Congress or the Courts From an Article by Sarah Vogelsong, Virginia Mercury, 9/22/22 Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) on Thursday sharply criticized a provision of a federal energy permitting reform bill that would force completion of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, saying that “it could [...]

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Manchin Plans to Embed Approval for MVP Pipeline in US Government Budget Resolution

September 22, 2022

Manchin Unveils Full Text of ‘Shameless Handout to the Fossil Fuel Industry’ From Article by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 9/21/22 Frontline communities and climate campaigners on Wednesday reiterated their opposition to U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s “dirty deal” after the West Virginia Democrat unveiled the full text of his proposal to overhaul federal permitting for energy [...]

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SENATOR MANCHIN’S DEAL MAY NOT SAVE THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY PIPELINE

September 21, 2022

Silence about Manchin and the MVP is Compliance with Violence From an Article by Michael Barrick, Appalachian Chronicle, September 18, 2022 . . WESTON, W.Va. – We read in Ecclesiastes that there is a season for everything, including a time to be silent and a time to speak. By now, I had hoped to be [...]

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Part 3. Plastics Pyrolysis to Diesel Fuel Not What It’s Cracked Up to Be

September 20, 2022

New Plant in Indiana Uses ‘Pyrolysis’ Process to Recycle Plastic Wastes. Some Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration From an Article by James Bruggers, Inside Climate News, 9/11/22 After two years, Brightmark Energy has yet to get the factory up and running. Environmentalists say pyrolysis requires too much energy, emits greenhouse gases and pollutants, and [...]

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Part 2. Plastics Pyrolysis to Diesel Fuel Not What It’s Cracked Up to Be

September 19, 2022

New Plant in Indiana Uses ‘Pyrolysis’ Process to Recycle Plastic Wastes. Some Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration . . From an Article by James Bruggers, Inside Climate News, 9/11/22 . . EPA Rules Under Review Brightmark and its expansion plans come as the Environmental Protection Agency weighs how to regulate pyrolysis, with air quality [...]

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Part 1. Plastics Pyrolysis to Diesel Fuel Not What It’s Cracked Up to Be

September 18, 2022

A New Plant in Indiana Uses a Process Called ‘Pyrolysis’ to Recycle Plastic Waste. Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration From an Article by James Bruggers, Inside Climate News, September 11, 2022 ASHLEY, Indiana—The bales, bundles and bins of plastic waste are stacked 10 feet high in a shiny new warehouse that rises from a [...]

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Tranco’s Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Meets Another Challenge from Catholic Nuns

September 17, 2022

Catholic nuns fought pipeline on their Lancaster County land. Now, citing religious freedom, they seek damages in court From an Article by Susan Phillips, StateImpact Penna., 9/15/22 A group of Catholic nuns who sued a pipeline company that seized its land through eminent domain argued Thursday in federal court in Philadelphia that environmental protection and [...]

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Solar Trees are Finding a Place in Our World

September 16, 2022

This ‘solar tree’ may be the EV charging station of the future From an Article by Michelle Lewis, Electrec-dot-co, September 6, 2022 London-based SolarBotanic Trees officially launched its “solar tree” prototype today, and the company wants to use it to power EV charging stations first. The SolarBotanic energy tree, which features what the company says [...]

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PA-DEP Says the Loyalsock Creek Being Polluted by Water Withdrawls & Pipelining

September 15, 2022

PA-DEP: Marcellus Shale company polluted Loyalsock Creek From an Article of Mark Maroney, Williamsport Sun Gazette, September 14, 2022 Sediment leaves a Pennsylvania General Energy Co. dewatering structure into the Loyalsock Creek. This discharge is in violation of the Clean Streams Law, according to the Department of Environmental Protection. The Loyalsock Creek north of Montoursville [...]

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