Sierra Club

Environmental groups are continuing to pressure LNG export facility and pipeline developers through federal appeals courts as lawsuits seeking to repeal authorizations stack up. In the latest of a series of filings to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Healthy Gulf and the Sierra Club requested FERC’s approval of two…

Conservation groups are again challenging Alaska LNG’s export approval from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), arguing the agency’s latest environmental assessment should have measured the project’s potential contribution to climate change. The Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia…

A group led by the Sierra Club has filed federal lawsuits challenging FERC’s decision earlier this year to reaffirm its approval of the Rio Grande and Texas LNG export projects as they continue a fight to stop the proposed facilities from advancing. The environmental group was joined by the city of Port Isabel and the…

Environmental advocates have filed another challenge against Tellurian Inc.’s proposed Driftwood LNG project, this time in the form of a petition against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The Sierra Club and New Orleans-based advocacy group Healthy Gulf have filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit asking for…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is facing pushback across the energy sector after issuing a draft rule that could require public companies to disclose more information about their emissions and their strategies. In a 3-1 decision earlier this week, the SEC voted to propose a groundbreaking rule that would force companies to intimate…

The Sierra Club has filed a petition on behalf of a coalition of Louisiana environmental groups requesting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deny Tellurian Inc.’s Title V operating permit request for the proposed Driftwood liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal. In the petition filed last week, the Sierra Club argued that the company’s permit for the…

The 2 Bcf/d Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project received a key water quality certification (WQC) from West Virginia late last week, but environmental groups have filed yet another lawsuit against the approval.  The pipeline would move Appalachian natural gas to the southeast via a 303-mile route through West Virginia and Virginia.  The Sierra Club and…

A report published Tuesday criticizing the use of renewable natural gas (RNG) by Earthjustice and the Sierra Club is facing pushback by the energy industry. The report, “Rhetoric vs. Reality: The myth of renewable natural gas,” refers to RNG as a fossil gas alternative, or FGA, and claims it has inherent limitations to mitigate climate…

Pursuing the same strategy they used to persuade a court to stop water crossing construction activities for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) until a broader legal challenge is resolved, a coalition of environmental groups wants to do the same to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project.