Virginia: Protect pipeline communities from COVID-19
Along with threats to clean water sources, endangered species habitat, the climate, private property, and public safety, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) can...
Expert Blog
The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.
5 Key Reasons to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
This massive dirty energy project would keep communities dependent on dirty fossil fuels for generations while jeopardizing sensitive rivers and streams, drinki...
2019: A Fracking Shame
It’s been decades now since NRDC started sounding a warning bell about oil and gas development—from the greenhouse gas emissions to the drinking water...
Pipeline Construction Harm to Farms, Including Organic
I’ve blogged before about how pipelines can destroy farmland , through subsoil compaction, loss of top soil, and drainage impacts, leading to lower crop yields...
Pipeline Incident Statistics Reveal Significant Dangers
The US needs to stop the fossil fuel epidemic and transition as quickly as possible to clean energy sources that do not leak, spill, or explode, and will help p...
It’s Clear as a Bell: Risky ACP and MVP Must Be Stopped Now
NRDC and many others have long pointed out the immense risks to water supplies and excessive costs to Virginians from two unneeded gas pipeline projects, and no...