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Canadian Appeals Court Rejects Permits for Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project
A Canadian federal appeals court today ruled that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which Kinder Morgan recently sold to the government of Canada, would need a far more extensive environm…
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Federal Court Rules State Dept. Must Conduct Full Environmental Review of Keystone XL in Nebraska
Today, the courts showed Trump and his corporate polluter friends that they cannot avoid the harm that Keystone XL would cause to rural landowners, farmers, ecosystems and Native communities.
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New Federal Investigation into Zinke’s Shady Land Deal Adds to Long List of Unethical Behavior
The inspector general of the Department of the Interior launched a probe yesterday evening into a real estate deal between a foundation established by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and the chai…
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Coalition Responds to Canadian Government Plan to Nationalize the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project
Despite widespread opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which would bring in 890,000 barrels of crude oil per day across Canada and out through the international…
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Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Rubber-stamping of Keystone XL Permit
Environmental and landowner groups today argued in federal court that the Trump administration’s rubber-stamp approval of a cross-border permit for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline violated environ…
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Herman Morris, Jr., Former Head of MLGW, Joins Friends of the Earth’s Efforts in Memphis
Former president and CEO of Memphis Light, Gas and Water and past City Attorney, Herman Morris, Jr., has joined Friends of the Earth as an adviser. Morris will work with Friends of the Earth on c…
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Fracked Gas Pipeline Neighbors file Federal Complaint against State of North Carolina Charging Environmental Justice Violations
An alliance of community, statewide and national groups today filed a federal complaint seeking to stop a hotly contested pipeline that would pump so-called natural gas from Appalachian fracking field…
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Friends of the Earth Releases Ad Aimed at Repeal of South Carolina Law that Enabled $9 Billion Waste at V.C. Summer Project
While the impact of the failed nuclear project is serious in nature and of paramount importance to the energy future of South Carolina, we need to focus attention on the public bailout of SCE&G and Do…
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Trump and Abe’s pro-coal agenda disastrous for the planet
Despite Trump and Abe’s regressive pro-coal agendas, coal is the energy of yesterday, while renewables are the energy of today and tomorrow.