On February 13, 2023, NRDC and other groups submitted public comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s updated proposed federal standards to cut dangerous methane pollution from the nation’s oil and gas industry. NRDC also submitted comments on EPA’s updated...
The Biden Administration has proposed a new federal offshore leasing program that could include leasing in as many as eleven areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet, Alaska and would enable continued development on the Outer Continental Shelf...
Letter submitted by NRDC and seven other organizations to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, urging the revision of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and cancellation of Lease Sale 258, which would open up over a million acres in the...
On May 28, 2020, NRDC filed a petition for review in the D.C. Circuit challenging the decision of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to authorize the Jordan Cove liquified natural gas export terminal and the associated Pacific Connector natural gas...
On April 20, 2020, NRDC filed a request for rehearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) of FERC’s decision to authorize the Jordan Cove liquified natural gas export terminal and the associated Pacific Connector natural gas pipeline.
Now, groundwater and surface water across Virginia continue to be at risk from massive pipeline construction that is moving forward under permits that lack adequate protections for water quality or quantity. DEQ can and should act to enforce Virginia water…
The Water Board now has the opportunity to step in and stop the Trump administration’s move to approve these pipelines using only the Army Corps’ Nationwide Permit 12, since it does not have adequate protections in place for individual Virginia…
RICHMOND, VA – Two proposed large gas pipelines could pollute valuable groundwater that supplies drinking water across Virginia, according to a report released today by the environmental consulting firm Downstream Strategies, which was prepared for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Comments submitted by NRDC in response to BOEM’s Request for Information and Draft Proposed Program as the agency considers a new oil and gas leasing plan for 2019 – 2024. NRDC opposes new leasing on account of the harm offshore...
LCV NextGen sent a letter asking Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to now initiate an individual pipeline permit process he called for throughout 2017, now that the U.S. Army Corps recently completed its own water crossing review process. The state DEQ...
RICHMOND - Two proposed major gas pipelines could contaminate the drinking water supplies of thousands of Virginians from one end of the Old Dominion to the other, a new report released today shows, twin threats that were insufficiently explored by…
NRDC worked with Downstream Strategies to produce a report that assesses threats and likely impacts to waterbodies, water supplies, fisheries, communities and the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Virginia during the construction and operation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and...
Not enough attention is being paid to two wholly unnecessary, risky and costly proposed natural gas pipelines that could impact the environment and quality of life in Virginia, North Carolina, and West Virginia for decades to come. But there’s plenty…
