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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Environmental Groups Back Township’s Legal Appeal to Restore the Right to a Full Hearing in Pipeline Challenges
(HARRISBURG, PA – January 27, 2020) On Monday, Clean Air Council, PennFuture, Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, and Mountain Watershed Association filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court […]
