June 1, 2023

The MVP is Far from Completion – Great Threats Remain for Virginia

The MVP is Far from Completion – Great Threats Remain for Virginia Decisions about the future of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must not rest on false claims that the pipeline is almost complete.[1] Virginia would incur a majority of the new damage if construction is allowed to resume. The table below, based on MVP’s… Read more


May 26, 2023

DC Circuit Court Orders FERC To Evaluate Additional Environmental Review After MVP Erosion

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled in favor of environmental and community groups in a case challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) extension of the certificate for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) that was issued in 2020. FERC faced sharp questioning in court about its handling of the environmental review process – after failing to do a supplemental Environmental… Read more


April 11, 2023

Groups File Legal Challenge to the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Biological Opinion

Washington, DC — Yesterday, environmental organizations filed a petition for review in federal court challenging a recently issued new biological opinion (BiOp) and incidental take statement under the Endangered Species Act for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. A federal appeals court has already twice rejected the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s prior authorizations for the pipeline… Read more


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March 29, 2023

Sierra Club v. Virginia State Water Control Board: What it Means for MVP

Sierra Club v. Virginia State Water Control Board: What it Means for MVP In a decision released on March 29, 2023, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Virginia State Water Control Board (Board) did not act arbitrarily and capriciously in issuing a Clean Water Act certification for Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) waterbody… Read more


March 3, 2023

Mountain Valley Pipeline in Our Backyards Harm Our Waters and Communities

Since construction began in early 2018, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) has resulted in nearly 1,500 pollution incidents and violations in Virginia alone. These include: • 113 times when Mountain Valley made measurable sediment deposits in waterbodies,• 684 times when sediment deposits were made on land off the right of way (ROW), and• 687 times… Read more


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December 16, 2022

Another Agency Tries to Rush MVP and Shorts Public’s Right to Speak

Another Agency Tries to Rush MVP Process: The Army Corps Shorts the Public’s Right to Speak On December 12, 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued notice that it would allow the public just 30 days to comment on a huge body of “supplemental information” that Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC has submitted to the… Read more


November 10, 2022

Top Five Mountain Valley Pipeline News Stories

Things have been fairly quiet over the last few weeks regarding the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and breaking news, which is a big change from what we saw late August and September of this year. As we remain vigilant in planning and are taking this break to bolster our efforts for 2023, here are the… Read more


September 27, 2022

MVP Sweetheart Deal Pulled from Must-pass Senate Bill

This evening, Senator Joe Manchin announced that he was asking that so-called “permitting reform” provisions be removed from the Continuing Resolution (CR), a budget bill that must be passed this week to avoid a government shutdown. The proposals Senator Manchin had offered were dangerous for the environment and disrespectful of the role members of the… Read more