March 1, 2024

I Tell PA Senators: Support Renewable Energy Jobs, Not LNG Exports

In January, 2024, President Biden announced a pause on export permits for liquefied natural gas (LNG). In their letter regarding this pause, published in The River Reporter on February 8, PA Senators Casey and Fetterman conclude: “If this decision puts

January 27, 2024

Biden Hits Pause on Natural Gas Projects Amid Plans for Carbon ‘Mega Bombs’

Pause on pending export permits is hailed by environmental groups, and could imperil projects along Gulf of Mexico coast
By Oliver Milman, The Guardian, January 26, 2024

Though there are 8 more LNG facilities that are permitted and not yet

July 29, 2023

DCS Opposes Proposed Injection Well in Fayette Co., PA

UPDATE (8/7/23): G2 STEM LLC has withdrawn its application for this injection well permit!

Read background information in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.


DCS has submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing the issuance of a permit for an injection …

November 18, 2022

The EPA Must Act to Protect Us from Chemical Pollutants

In September, a coalition of Scientists, Activists, and Families, called SAFE, traveled to DC to call out the EPA:

STOP working for corporations and start working for people!
CHEMICALS are polluting our water, air, and soil, and making us sick.…

March 22, 2022

Stop LNG by Rail

Sign the petition calling on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to ban LNG “bomb” trains.

Petition to be delivered to PHMSA on March 31, 2022, so please sign before then.


Background:
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …

October 22, 2021

Climate Poses Many Threats To U.S. Financial System & Natural Gas May Be Major Risk

The federal entity created to guard against another Great Recession just issued its first landmark report on global warming
By Alexander C. Kaufman, The Huffington Post, October 21, 2021

After months of waiting, environmental groups responded with disappointment tinged with

June 26, 2021

DC Circuit Rejects FERC Approval of Existing Spire Gas Pipeline

“An unprecedented mess of FERC’s own creation.”
By Catherine Morehouse, June 23, 2021, UtilityDive

Dive Brief:

  • A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday vacated a federal order granting a $287 million Midwest
March 9, 2021

The Even More Game-Changing Biden Order You’ve Never Heard About

Biden’s executive order “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” (“Restoring Science”), issued January 20, has received bafflingly little publicity. In effect, it orders federal agencies to take out the regulatory trash

January 25, 2021

The Game-Changing Biden Order You Haven’t Heard About

A directive about the regulatory process could lead to progressive movement on climate change, public health and worker safety.
By Kevin Robillard, HuffingtonPost, January 24, 2021

Read the order “Modernizing Regulatory Review”.


On his first day in office, President Joe

March 29, 2020

YIKES! EPA Proposes Broad Science Restrictions in Midst of Coronavirus Pandemic

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the agency is recklessly giving the public just 30 days to comment on this sweeping proposal to restrict the types of research that can be used in public health protection decisions and scientific
October 14, 2019

Loopholes for Polluters

The Oil and Gas Industry’s Exemptions to Major Environmental Laws
By Earthworks

The oil and gas industry is exempt from key provisions of seven major federal environmental laws — allowing practices that would otherwise be illegal. Some exemptions date back …

December 14, 2018

The Climate Report That Trump Tried to Bury

Summary of major U.S. government report that warns of major threats to human health and safety, quality of life, and economic growth Climate & Capitalism, November 24, 2018

Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the U.S. Global

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