Contacts: Lewis Freeman, Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance, 703-298-8107, lewfreeman@gmail.com Greg Buppert, Southern Environmental Law Center, 434-977-4090, gbuppert@selcva.org Ben Luckett, Appalachian Mountain Advocates, 404-645-0125, bluckett@appalmad.org Peter Anderson, Appalachian Voices, 434-293-6373, peter@appvoices.org An analysis of environmental impacts for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline…
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Federal review of Atlantic Coast Pipeline fails people and the environment
TAGS: atlantic coast Dominion Energy dominion power Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC fracked gas Natural Gas pipelines
Atlantic Coast Pipeline backers head to North Carolina
While North Carolina is rightfully focused on the coal ash scandal, another environmental tug-of-war is strengthening in some of the state’s poorest areas. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cut 170 miles through eastern N.C. where a quarter to a third of people live in poverty. And this is precisely why these types of projects are placed in low-income communities: to reduce the chance of resistance.
TAGS: Atlantic Coast Pipeline dominion power Duke Energy energysure fracked gas n.c. policy watch Natural Gas North Carolina Pipeline
Virginia Utility Submits Plan for the Future
Environmental groups are challenging Dominion Virginia Power’s proposed plan to construct a new nuclear facility as part of its alternative energy initiative.
Cleanup Plans for Region’s Coal Ash Cause Concerns
In both North Carolina and Virginia coal ash impoundments are being drained into lakes and rivers, a stage in the clean-up efforts that is causing citizen and environmental groups concerns.
TAGS: A.C.T. Against Coal Ash ACT Against Coal Ash Coal Ash coal ash cleanup coal ash ponds dominion power Dominion Virginia Power Duke Energy high priority coal ash Water Pollution
Competition in Solar Power Challenges Utilities
Utility companies in North Carolina and Virginia attempt to block third-party solar power from gaining a foothold in their coverage areas.
TAGS: Dominion dominion power Duke Energy NC WARN net metering North Carolina solar farm Solar power third party financing
Many roads lead to clean energy
Utilities are cranking more and more electricity onto the grid on extremely cold or hot days — but too much of that ends up leaking out windows and doors in lower-income housing. As the NAACP points out, energy efficiency and other distributed energy sources are safer, healthier, and more equitable ways of providing electricity, and they have the added bonus of bringing much needed economic opportunity to communities of color.
TAGS: African American bremco dominion power Duke Energy Economic revitalization Energy Efficiency jobs low-income Solar
The Energy Report Round-Up
By Brian Sewell Dan River Coal Ash Cleanup “Complete” After removing approximately six percent of the coal ash it spilled into the Dan River in February, Duke Energy announced it has “completed cleanup efforts” to remove coal ash from the…
