One more action before we deliver on Thursday morning! Send a comment supporting organic farmer and Mountain Valley Pipeline fighter Maury Johnson.

Maury has been asking FERC to protect his farm from illegal activities like refueling and Port-a-Potty storage by the MVP developers. A lot of local WV and VA residents have been documenting pollution and illegal activity by the MVP, but FERC (and other agencies) refuses to do anything about it! Use FERC's own e-comment system and enter Docket number CP16-10-000 to send a quick note backing Maury up, and tune in live online tomorrow morning at 915 am ET to hear what Maury and other FERC fighters have to say!

Not sure what to say in your E-comment? Click here to check out the blog post with more details and a sample comment you can copy and paste! You can't submit pictures, but here's an example of what Maury's been documenting in his appeals to FERC:

Check the blog post if you need more context or want to see our 90 second reviews of each FERC nominee. But here's the short version for your busy inbox.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has paused new permits for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) exports, pending a review of their impact on our climate, communities, and economy. But the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has gone on rubber-stamping fossil fuel permits, including for LNG export facilities – undermining the climate and economic benefit of Biden's pause.

We've been fighting FERC for years, but we're stepping up our efforts this spring because President Biden's pause on LNG export licenses at DOE has given us an opportunity. But, as we've told you before, LNG exports aren't only regulated by DOE. FERC issues the permits to build the facilities, while DOE issues the permits to sell the sell the gas to certain international partners.

Last month (February 2024), FERC approved the Driftwood LNG facility in Louisiana to construct and operate facilities a massive LNG terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. This month (March 2024), FERC is considering allowing another expansion of the Cheniere LNG facility in Texas. And FERC is still being pressured to approve the massive Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) LNG export facility that Bill McKibben called "Biden's next big climate test" because it would generate twenty times the greenhouse gas emissions of the huge Willow Arctic oil project. AND FERC is failing to enforce pollution rules on the projects it has already permitted, including the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).

So we're taking action all this week to #UnFrackFERC. You can check out the website 198methods.org and our social media for more ways to take action including:

And whatever you do, tune in with us tomorrow morning for live updates from FERC and the US Senate as we deliver your comments!

Thanks,

Drew and the 198 reasons to shut FERC down crew

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