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Posts by Kelly Trout

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  Art of the Self-Deal: How Regulatory Failure Lets Gas Pipeline Companies Fabricate Need and Fleece Ratepayers

  Kelly Trout, September 19, 2017
  A new report released by Oil Change International, Public Citizen, and the Sierra Club examines how a new wave of gas pipeline construction threatens to shunt serious risks and costs on to utility ratepayers.
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  Report: Gas Pipeline Construction Leading to Massive Risks to Utility Ratepayers

  Kelly Trout, September 19, 2017
  As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission prepares for its first meeting in seven months, and as states weigh new gas pipelines facing imminent rulings from Trump-appointed regulators, a report released today exposes an impending crisis of risk to utility ratepayers.
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  Oil Change International Responds to Senate FERC Confirmation Vote

  Kelly Trout, August 3, 2017
  Today, the Senate voted by unanimous consent to confirm Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In response, David Turnbull, Campaigns Director at Oil Change International, released the following statement.
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  FERC’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline Review Shrugs at Climate Disaster

  Kelly Trout, July 21, 2017
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today released its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile project driven by Dominion Energy and Duke Energy that would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia and North Carolina.
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  RELEASE: FERC Repeats Failure on Mountain Valley Pipeline Review

  Kelly Trout, June 23, 2017
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today released its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. As has been the pattern at FERC, the review fails to adequately assess whether the pipeline is needed in the first place, while sweeping aside the project’s serious threats to water resources, the safety of communities, and the climate.
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  Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2017

  Kelly Trout, June 21, 2017
  Big banks’ business as usual is killing the climate. From 2014 to 2016, big banks around the world poured $290 billion into extreme fossil fuel companies and failed to respect human rights.
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  The Rover Pipeline: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Briefing

  Kelly Trout, June 7, 2017
  We find that Energy Transfer Partners' Rover Pipeline would lead to annual emissions of nearly 145 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. This would be the equivalent of adding 42 coal-fired power plants or over 30 million passenger vehicles.
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  New Analysis Reveals Another Reason to Halt the Rover Pipeline: It’s a Climate Disaster

  Kelly Trout, June 7, 2017
  As controversy swirls around a string of spills and air and water violations caused by Energy Transfer Partners’ construction of the Rover gas pipeline, a study released today underlines another reason federal regulators should halt the project: It will fuel a massive increase in climate pollution.
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  RELEASE: Oil Change International responds to Senate Committee vote on FERC nominees

  Kelly Trout, June 6, 2017
  "In the wake of Trump’s destructive withdrawal from the Paris Accord, there’s no excuse for Senators to sit on the sidelines, let alone greenlight two more fossil fuel industry allies to serve on FERC."
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  To Lead on Climate, Virginia’s Governor Can and Must Stop Pipelines

  Kelly Trout, May 31, 2017
  As Donald Trump appears poised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement and further entrench the power of the fossil fuel industry within our federal government, state and local action on climate becomes ever more crucial.