Environmental

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected two cases brought by the Sierra Club in its effort to thwart exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG). However, the door is still open to new and ongoing challenges.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in comments filed with FERC on Monday that the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for Columbia Pipeline Group Inc.’s Leach and Rayne XPress pipeline projects is insufficient, recommending that additional information be included in the final version.

An environmental assessment has found no significant impact from using specific well stimulation treatments, such as hydraulic fracturing, in oil and gas activities offshore California, the Department of Interior said Friday.

Private landowners in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest are growing increasingly restive with the federal government’s four-year effort to lease parts of the forest for shale drilling, with two mineral rights organizations recently criticizing ongoing delays and urging a variety of stakeholders to file public comments.

Private landowners in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest are growing increasingly restive with the federal government’s four-year effort to lease parts of the forest for shale drilling, with two mineral rights organizations recently criticizing ongoing delays and urging a variety of stakeholders to file public comments.

A Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania is circulating a memo seeking co-sponsors for a bill that would strengthen the independence of the state’s Environmental Quality Board (EQB) by shaking-up its membership and eliminating the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) secretary’s chairmanship.

A Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania is circulating a memo seeking co-sponsors for a bill that would strengthen the independence of the state’s Environmental Quality Board (EQB) by shaking-up its membership and eliminating the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) secretary’s chairmanship.

FERC staff has issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Atlantic Sunrise project of Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).

FERC staff has issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Atlantic Sunrise project of Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).