Commonsense Regulations Would Limit Waste and Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Drilling Washington, DC -- In a document that is expected to be filed in the Federal Register tomorrow, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will propose an 18-month delay of a rule designed to limit methane pollution from oil and gas operations on [...]
September 21, 2017 The River Healers have droned multiple fracking sites in the Greater Chaco Area (New Mexico) impacted by explosions, fires, spills, and methane. See what they are finding. Hear their story. By Tom Burkett – River Healer Spokesperson, New Mexico Watchdog The Greater Chaco region is known to the Diné (Navajo) as Dinétah, the land [...]
New alliance highlights states’ progress despite President Donald Trump’s rollbacks. by Elizabeth Shogren The governors of California and Washington traveled to New York City last week to send a strong, simple message to world leaders gathered for the United Nation’s annual General Assembly. When it comes to acting on climate change, “you can count us [...]
by Ellen M. Gilmer A court struck down the Bureau of Land Management’s climate analysis for leases in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Pamela King/E&E News A federal court this morning rebuffed the Bureau of Land Management for failing to closely consider the climate impacts of several coal leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. In a win [...]
A fire ecologist on how it happened, and why communities will have to adapt. by Joe Eaton This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The West is burning, and there’s no relief in sight. More than 80 large wildfires are raging in an area covering more than [...]
Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E News reporter Attorney Carolyn Elefant stands outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to announce a lawsuit challenging the agency's use of eminent domain for natural gas pipelines. Ellen M. Gilmer/E&E News Justin Lugar is more familiar with white-collar criminal defense than the intricacies of pipelines and eminent domain law. And yet the [...]
What You Need to Know About Sandoval County’s Oil and Gas Ordinance June 11, 2017 commonground Leave a comment What You Need to Know About Sandoval County’s Oil and Gas Ordinance #Common Ground Rising/ STOP FRACKING THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY OUTREACH PROJECT ON FACEBOOK OUR PAGE For the past 18 months, Sandoval County Commission has been undergoing [...]
A Court of Appeals decision could have wide-ranging impacts on how fracked gas pipelines are approved for construction. By Alison Grass Recently, in a precedent setting 2-1 ruling, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval of the $3.5 billion Southeast Market Pipelines Project, declaring that the agency did not properly [...]
By Roz Brown, Public News Service Robin Stevens Elephant Butte in 2003. cc ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many in the U.S. are dealing with flooding from massive hurricanes while New Mexico is celebrating moderate relief from a drought that has lasted 18 years. For the first time since the federal Drought Monitor began operations in January 2000, New Mexico [...]
Improving Learning and Operations to Increase Green Energy Use Resource List 1) Clean Energy Policy Basics - https://www.nrel.gov/tech_deployment/state_local_governments/policy_basics.html 2) Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium –Increase learning and civic engagement by encouraging use of the Beyond Doom and Gloom materials in schools, organizations and the community. Share the following: a. Educator/staff page - http://www.aashe.org/partners/heasc/initiatives/beyond-doom-and-gloom/ b. Public/Student [...]