Chesapeake Climate Action Network
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) is the first grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our mission is to build and mobilize a powerful grassroots movement in this unique region that surrounds our nation’s capital to call for state, national and international policies that will put us on a path to climate stability. - See more at: http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=7&Itemid=11#sthash.9cgEG60o.dpuf
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Friday, March 06, 2020 Virginia Passes Historic 100% Clean Energy Legislation The oldest deliberative body in the Western Hemisphere made a new kind of history today. With climate change impacts growing worldwide and scientists saying we’re almost out of time, the Virginia General Assembly leaped into national leadership on climate policy with passage of the “Virginia Clean... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, February 22, 2019 Newly Uncovered Documents Show Pruitt Spent Nearly $900,000 on Personal Security for Travel Newly released EPA records confirm that former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt spent a disproportionate amount for his personal security detail to travel with him – nearly 210% more than his predecessor, former Administrator Gina McCarthy. These records, which were newly obtained by the Chesapeake... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, September 16, 2016 Community and Conservation Groups Condemn FERC’s Review of Proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline Federal regulators today released a draft environmental review for the proposed fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline that public interest advocates say fails to adequately assess the public need for the project and the widespread threats to private property, public lands, local communities, water... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, June 28, 2016 D.C. Council Unanimously Approves Region-Leading 50% Renewable Energy Target he nation’s capital took another step toward nation-leading climate action today, as the District of Columbia Council unanimously approved legislation ( B21-650 ) to expand D.C.’s renewable energy target to 50 percent by 2032. “Today’s vote is a major step toward growing the District’s clean energy... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, June 06, 2016 CCAN Applauds D.C. for Divesting its $6.4 Billion Pension Fund from Fossil Fuels Today, D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen joined environmental and philanthropic leaders to announce that the District of Columbia Retirement Board (DCRB) has divested its $6.4 billion fund from all direct investments in 200 of the world’s most polluting fossil fuel companies. On Tuesday, June 7th ,... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 19, 2016 D.C. Circuit Court Hears Environmental Challenge to Feds’ Approval of Cove Point Gas Export Facility in Maryland Environmental groups faced off with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today, arguing that the agency illegally overlooked significant pollution and human safety risks in approving a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal along the... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, April 14, 2016 Environmental, Health, and Faith Leaders Call on Clinton Foundation to Return ExxonMobil Money On the heels of mounting investigations into whether ExxonMobil deceived the public and investors over climate change, activists gathered today at the National Press Club to release a letter—signed by celebrities and public interest groups—urging the Clinton Foundation to return more than one... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, August 20, 2015 New Study Deepens Case that Gas Exports at Cove Point Will Be Worse for the Climate than Coal According to a new study released this week as part of an ongoing research effort by the Environmental Defense Fund, natural gas “gathering” facilities for piping and processing natural gas in the United States leak about 100 billion cubic feet of gas per year — a figure that is eight times larger... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, August 12, 2014 The AMP Creeks Council Wins Cove Point LNG Terminal Court Case Against Calvert County Calvert County Circuit Court Judge James Salmon handed down a decision that has significant implications for the proposed Cove Point LNG export terminal. Judge Salmon found a Calvert County law, passed specifically to clear the way for Dominion Cove Point’s export project, to be in violation of the... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 14, 2014 24 People Arrested Blocking Entrances to FERC to Protest Proposed Fracked Gas Export Facility Residents impacted by shale gas infrastructure and their supporters blocked the entrances to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters today in protest of the proposed Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility and others proposed around the country. Read more |