Courtroom update on Cove Point: the fight continues
I’m writing with an update for southern Marylanders and all of you who joined our fight — and continue to fight — to stop Dominion’s disastrous fracked-gas export facility at… Continued
Author Archives: Anne Havemann, General Counsel
Report from the DC Circuit: Federal Court Hears Case Against Cove Point Export Facility
Using every tool available, CCAN and many others have been fighting the massive Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal for over three years. The facility, located on the… Continued
Curbing Virginia’s Reliance on Natural Gas
Virginia is facing an unprecedented expansion of fracked-gas infrastructure. Just this morning, Mountain Valley applied for federal approval to build a $3.2 billion, 301-mile fracked-gas pipeline from northwestern West Virginia… Continued
From CCAN’s General Counsel: Update on Cove Point Legal Fight
While groups on the ground in Calvert County continue to stand up to Dominion’s massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal along the Chesapeake Bay, the fight is simultaneously moving… Continued
Your climate art judged by Philippe Cousteau and Van Jones?
CCAN has partnered with groups like Energy Action, 350.org, the Hip Hop Caucus and many more in the first online art contest exploring climate change in its many forms –… Continued
“What Better Place than Here, What Better Time than Now”
Why would a guy from Maine with a degree in sociology pack up his car and move 739 miles to Fredericksburg, Virginia? Social justice
LTE: One step forward, two steps back for Bay project
The following letter to the editor, written by CCAN fellow Justin Klecha, was printed in the Culpeper Star-Exponent on June 30th. Read more about CCAN’s summer fellows in our June-July… Continued
Judge Refuses to Jail Climate Activist
In a victory for both the climate and basic decency, a federal judge today refused to put a global warming organizer in jail for simply hanging activist banners in a… Continued
Good News for Deepwater Oil Junkies
We’ve all heard that we’re addicted to oil. But in the wake of the BP spill we might do well to take the oil-as-a-drug metaphor a little more seriously. For… Continued
Inspiring Va. Awards Celebration last night
Last night CCAN held its first annual Virginia Climate Champions Ceremony at the beautiful St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Old Town Alexandria. We were honored to present “Virginia Climate Leadership… Continued