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Posts by Kelly Trout

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  Will Governor Brown Plug the Dangerous Hole in California’s Climate Action?

  Kelly Trout, May 22, 2018
  If Governor Brown is serious about marshaling a response to climate change that is adequate to the challenge, he must lead the managed transition off oil and gas production in California. That's the call to action of a new report released by Oil Change International in partnership with 14 other environmental justice and climate groups.
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  The Sky’s Limit California

  Kelly Trout, May 22, 2018
  This new report details why California must chart a path off fossil fuel extraction to meet its commitment to the Paris Agreement climate goals.
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  Climate Leader or Coal Champion? Time for Germany to Decide

  Kelly Trout, November 8, 2017
  A new Oil Change International report shows that, if Germany is truly committed to being a leader in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, it must lead the way with a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel production and finance.
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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.