{"id":624,"date":"2018-10-19T13:32:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcv26.wpenginepowered.com\/newsroom\/virginia-issues-license-to-pollute-for-atlantic-coast-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:32:47","slug":"virginia-issues-license-to-pollute-for-atlantic-coast-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"valcv_release","link":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/newsroom\/virginia-issues-license-to-pollute-for-atlantic-coast-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia emite \u2018licencia para contaminar\u2019 para el oleoducto de la Costa Atl\u00e1ntica\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Certification issued by state regulators ignores clear evidence<br \/>\nthat pipeline construction imperils clean water, Virginia communities<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>RICHMOND \u2013 Today, the Department of Environmental Quality issued final permits needed for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to move from the tree-clearing phase to full-bore construction of its dangerous, unnecessary 42-inch diameter natural gas pipeline, which will impact more than 300 miles of Virginia mountainside, heartland and hundreds of waterways.<\/p>\n<p>The certification comes even as evidence mounts in Southwest Virginia that state regulations did little to keep communities safe from the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has clogged some of our state\u2019s cleanest waters with mud and sediment as crews trenched across steep, rugged, flashflood-prone terrain.<\/p>\n<p>In response to today\u2019s news,\u00a0<strong>Lee Francis, deputy director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters<\/strong>, emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven as their on-the-ground safeguards for pipeline construction have failed Southwest Virginia, today state regulators saw it fit to allow an even larger, more complicated and environmentally destructive pipeline project to move forward, despite clear evidence that these pipelines can\u2019t be built safely.<\/p>\n<p>By allowing this project to advance, Virginia is putting its citizens, their clean water, and public health in harm\u2019s way.\u00a0We simply don\u2019t need hundreds of miles of costly and environmentally destructive gas infrastructure to keep the lights on in Virginia, but sadly, this approval is a step toward marrying Virginia to a future of higher energy costs and volatile fossil fuels for years to come while Dominion Energy profits handsomely at our expense.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certification issued by state regulators ignores clear evidence that pipeline construction imperils clean water, Virginia communities RICHMOND \u2013 Today, the Department of Environmental Quality issued final permits needed for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to move from the tree-clearing phase to full-bore construction of its dangerous, unnecessary 42-inch diameter natural gas pipeline, which will impact more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-624","valcv_release","type-valcv_release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/valcv_release"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}