Clean Air Council


30th of September 2020

The Council and impacted community members still demand DEP Revoke Permits for Mariner East 2

The Mariner East 2 Pipeline Project has been a disaster. Drilling, spilling, and destroying Pennsylvania waterways, local ecosystems, and landscapes since Sunoco Pipeline began construction in 2017.  Clean Air Council […]


24th of August 2020

Over Thirty Environment and Conservation Organizations Demand DEP Revoke Mariner East Permits

PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 24, 2020) –  Over thirty non-profit organizations from across Pennsylvania submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell today demanding the DEP immediately […]


11th of August 2020

Sunoco Spills Large Volume of Industrial Waste into Marsh Creek Lake, Chester County Drinking Water Source

CHESTER COUNTY, PA (August 11, 2020) – Yesterday, Sunoco Pipeline L.P. (part of Energy Transfer) released at least 1000 gallons of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) fluid, an industrial waste, into […]


10th of August 2020

Clean Air Council Condemns EPA’s Dangerous Rollback of Methane Protections

PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 13th, 2020) – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its unlawful rollback of the 2016 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for the oil and gas sector, […]


30th of June 2020

Court Strikes Down Feds’ “Kafkaesque” Approach to Fracked Gas Pipeline Permitting

Controversial FERC Practice Rejected, but Without Relief for Atlantic Sunrise Petitioners Tuesday, June 30, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued […]


23rd of April 2020

Urge the Delaware River Basin Commission to Deny a Proposed LNG Export Terminal

Submitting Written Comment. Written comment on draft Docket 2017-009-2 may be made through the Commission’s web-based comment system – http://hearing.drbc.commentinput.com/?id=fZR9E – and will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. on Friday, […]


17th of April 2020

CLEAN AIR COUNCIL CHALLENGES MARINER EAST WAIVERS ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

On April 2nd, Clean Air Council submitted a letter urging the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) to reconsider and partially rescind six waivers the Department issued to […]


7th of April 2020

A Tale of Two Pipelines

Clean Air Council was hard at work in February 2016 helping maple syrup farmers in Northeastern Pennsylvania save their land. The Williams Companies, a multi-billion-dollar fossil fuels pipeline corporation, used all […]


2nd of April 2020

Clean Air Council Challenges Waivers Issued to Energy Transfer to Work During Pandemic

(PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 2, 2020) On Wednesday, Clean Air Council urged the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to reconsider and partially rescind six waivers the Department issued […]


25th of March 2020

Energy Transfer Seeks Waivers to Move Ahead on Mariner East in Quarantined Residents’ Yards

(PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 25, 2020) On Wednesday morning, Clean Air Council obtained the requests that Energy Transfer made on Friday to the office of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, seeking […]


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