Press Archives
2024 Releases
- Statement of Delaware Riverkeeper Network on the U.S. Department of Energy Analysis of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Exports “No LNG Exports, including from Delaware River Watershed Ports!”
- Media Advisory: STOP MACH2 Groups Protest “Green Hydrogen” Summit in Philadelphia MACH2 Hydrogen Hub Energy is NOT Green or Clean
- Environmental Organizations Bring Lawsuit Against Three States For Endangered Species Act Violation That Imperils Iconic Atlantic Sturgeon
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Appeals PADEP Approval for Sewage Sludge to be Land Applied. Nazareth Borough Municipal Authority Plans to Spread Biosolids in Plainfield Twp., Northampton County on the Hower Farm
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Petitions the Town of Highland to Adopt a Moratorium on Development in Upper Delaware River Wild & Scenic Corridor
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Files Lawsuit Against US EPA: Claims Agency’s Delayed Release of Water Quality Standards Essential for Protecting Endangered Sturgeon & Other Aquatic Life Violates the Clean Water Act
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Sends EPA Notice of Intent To Sue for Violation of The Clean Water Act in Delayed Release of Final Water Quality Standards For Protecting Aquatic Life in Delaware Estuary (2024-08-02)
- VICTORY: Environmental Groups, Rate Advocates Win Challenge To FERC’s Flawed Pipeline Approval (2024-07-30)
- Environmental Organizations Join To Notify 3 States Of Intent To Sue For the Illegal Killing of Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon (2024-07-18)
- Third Circuit Court of Appeals Vindicates Right of Environmental Organizations to Challenge the Transco REAE Pipeline (2024-07-09)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Notifies 3 States Of Intent To Sue For the Illegal Killing of Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon (2024-07-09)
- Climate Crisis Evident in Upper Delaware River (2024-06-05)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Statement EPA adoption of PFAS safe drinking water regulations (2024-04-10)
- Pennsylvania Public Health, Environmental Groups Celebrate Major PFAS Announcement
- Amicus Brief Supports New York Green Amendment Claims Advanced by Fresh Air For The Eastside In Case Challenging State’s Failure to Protect Communities From Dangerous Air Emissions
- Commuities Occupy MACH2 Hydrogen Hub Meeting (2024-03-11)
- Organizations File Objections to MACH2 Hydrogen Hub “Community Meeting” (2024-02-21)
- Biden Administration’s Moratorium on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Exports Promises Delaware River Protection (2024-02-01)
- President Biden Temporary Halt on Dept. of Energy Approvals for Liquefied Natural Gas Exports a Win for the Climate and Activism! (2024-01-26)
2023 Releases
- Environmental Activists Host A “Last Baby Shower” for the Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon
- “Last Baby Shower” for the Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Strikes Another Legal Blow Against Transco Pipeline 12.22.23
- EPA Sets New Standards for Del River — Enviros Support But Urge More
- PA House Energy & Environment Committee Holds Hearing on New Streamside Buffers Legislation (2023-10-02)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Impugns PA LNG Task Force Report Biased Report Undermines Communities and Ignores Plain Facts
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Objects to Governor Shapiro and CNX Alliance
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Statement Criticizing the PA Legislature’s Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Report Approval (2023-11-01)
- DRN Condemns Hydrogen Hub Awards in Region & Nationally (2023-10-13)
- Southeast PA Communities Unite to Stop the Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Scheme (2023-08-22)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Files Petition Urging Special Status for Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon Due To Nearing Threat of Extinction (2023-07-19)
- Environmental Activists Host a “Last Baby Shower” for the Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon (2023-06-29)
- Press Release – Devils in the unknown details in proposed “forever chemicals” settlement between New Jersey and Solvay (2023-06-28)
- Court Rejects Transco Pipeline Company Bid for Preliminary Injunction (2023-06-06)
- Press Statement: Biden’s Debt-Deal Sacrifices the Environment, 5/29/2023
- Press Release – Environmental Groups Urge PADEP to Deny Warehouse Stormwater Permits (2023-05-24)
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Proposed Gibbstown Wyalusing LNG Export Project Analyzed (2023-05-08)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Letter Demands Action & Answers on Trinseo Spill (2023-03-29)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Remains Vigilant on Trinseo Chemical Spill to the Delaware River (2023-03-28)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Statement Regarding River Chemical Spill (2023-03-27)
- FERC Greenlights Transco REAE Pipeline Forest Cutting; Denies Rehearing Requests (2023-03-22)
- Press Statement: USEPA proposed PFAS safe drinking water regulations (2023-03-14)
2022 Releases
- Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition Disturbed by DRBC Failure to Enact Full Frack Ban 12.21.22
- DRN Statement on DRBC Fracking Vote (2022-12-07)
- Organizations Clamor for FULL Frack Ban on December 7 (2022-12-06)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Takes a Rare Step by Granting Environmental Coalition’s Petition to Protect Aquatic Life in the Delaware Estuary (2022-12-01)
- Watershed Activists, Businesses, and Residents Commemorate Loss of 350,000 Atlantic Sturgeon in Procession Around City Hall (2022-11-16)
- Maya van Rossum Publishes Second Edition of The Green Amendment: The People’s Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment (2022-11-01)
- Organizations and Individuals Call for Full Frack Ban on Imports and Exports (2022-10-18)
- Conservation Organizations Urge DEP to Deny Transco Water Permits for Transco’s Proposed Gas Pipeline Expansion in Exceptional Value Waters (2022-10-13)
- Federal Court Rebukes Pennsylvania Pro-Fracking Senators For Challenge to Delaware River Ban on Fracking (2022-09-16)
- Public Blasts DRBC for Shutting Public Out While Approving an Unjustified Permit Extension for Deeply Opposed Gibbstown LNG Export Terminal (2022-09-08)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Calls for Gibbstown LNG Dock Permit Extension to be Opened to Public Hearing Process (2022-09-07)
- PADEP Announces Public Hearing & Comment Period for Transco REAE Pipeline Water and Encroachment Permits (2022-09-06)
- Backlash Against Murphy Endorsed Turnpike/Holland Tunnel Boondoggle Grows From Jersey City to Woodbridge, Residents, Elected Officials, Activists Push Back (2022-08-18)
- Yale Study Exposes Fracking Industry’s Cancerous Impacts on Pennsylvania Children (2022-08-17)
- PADEP Recommends and the EQB Votes to Protect Aquatic Life and Streams Against Mining Pressure (2022-08-11)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network’s Statement on D.C. Circuit Court Decision Regarding the Adelphia Gateway Project (2022-08-02)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Protests Extension of DRBC Approval for Proposed Gibbstown LNG Export Terminal (2022-07-27)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Sends Notice to National Marine Fisheries Service for Endangered Species Act Violations Threatening Atlantic Sturgeon (2022-07-21)
- 23 Philadelphia Region Elected Officials Submit Letter to Biden Administration Opposing LNG by Rail (2022-07-06)
- SCOTUS Environmental Decision, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency PFAS Health Advisory Level Updates (2022-06-15)
- Petitions Delivered to Biden Administration to Reinstate the National Ban on Transporting LNG by Rail (2022-05-18)
- Media Advisory – Petitions to Stop LNG Rail Transport to be submitted to Federal Government (2022-05-16)
- Coalition Petitions EPA To Take Action on Delaware River Oxygen Standards – PR and Petition (2022-04-29)
- PA PFAS Coalition Calls for Stricter Rules for Toxic Contaminants (2022-04-20)
- Press Release Environmental Coalition Challenges DRBC Scientific Findings (2022-04-19)
- Vast Undercount of Public Comments Threatens Rulemaking on Water Quality (2022-04-12)
- EmpowerNJ Analysis Shows Murphy Administration Not Serious About Climate Goals (2022-04-11)
- Press Attachment: EmpowerNJ – Completed and Pending Fossil Fuel Projects Released (2022-04-11)
- Press Release PA PFAS MCL proposed rule (2022-02-25)
- Press Statement DRFBC: If Fracking is Too Dangerous, So Is Importing Fracking’s Toxic Waste (2022-02-22)
- NJDEP Proposed CO2 Rule Falls Short in Dealing With Climate Emergency (2022-02-01)
- Press Statement: Coalition Welcomes Additional DRBC Public Hearing on Delaware River Frack Ban Rules (2022-01-26)
- Climate Coalition Sues Murphy Administration Over Inaction (2022-01-20)
2021 Releases
- FERC Vacates PennEast Certificate (16 December 2021)
- PennEast Pipeline Company Confirms Project’s Cancellation (1 December 2021)
- Expiration of Special Permit Imminent for LNG Transportation By Rail Car to Gibbstown Export Terminal (22 November 2021)
- Philadelphia Residents and Organizations Deliver 3,674 Petitions to Biden Administration opposing LNG by rail transport through City (17 November 2021)
- Pennsylvania Proposes Toxic “Forever Chemical” Removal from Drinking Water (16 November 2021)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Files Legal Challenge to Protect Historic Headquarters Road Bridge & Exceptional Value Tinicum Creek (15 November 2021)
- Pennsylvania Proposes Toxic “Forever Chemical” Removal from Drinking Water (10 Nov 2021)
- EmpowerNJ Statement Regarding Gov. Murphy’s Executive Order for 50% GHG Reductions by 2030 (10 Nov 2021)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network and HALT File Opposition to Motion to Hold PennEast Case in Abeyance (5 Nov. 2021)
- DRBC Proposes Fracking Regulations that Put River & Communities at Risk (1 Nov. 2021)
- DRN Statement on Court Decision to Vacate Clean Water Act Section 401 Regulatory Rollbacks (22 Oct 2021)
- PennEast Pipeline cancelled (updated 27 Sept 2021)
- PennEast Pipeline Cancelled! Dogged Opposition by the People Wins the Day (2021-09-27)
- Office of Open Records grants Delaware Riverkeeper Network appeal (13 September 2021)
- Registration now open for 2021 Watershed Congress (Aug. 31, 2021)
- Statement: PennEast Pipeline Company reportedly drops landowner lawsuits in Pennsylvania (August 11, 2021)
- Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Rules In Favor of Delaware Riverkeeper Network; Court rules against PADEP request to dismiss PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Petition (27 July 2021)
- New Jersey: Meet moral, legal obligations to reduce climate pollution – Empower NJ files legal petition calling for 50% cut by 2030 (21 July 2021)
- Press Release: Environment & Youth Leaders Urge New Jersey Leadership to Stop PennEast Pipeline Approvals from State & DRBC (2021-07-15)
- Statement: Shocking Discovery: PFAS Forever Chemicals in Fracking Fluids (12 July 2021)
- Environment & Youth Leaders Will Be Gathering to Urge New Jersey Leadership to Stop PennEast Pipeline Approvals From State & DRBC (2021-07-07)
- Supreme Court PennEast Decision (2021-06-29)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Statement re. Court Decision Affirming NJDEP’s Gibbstown Waterfront Development Permit
- Statement on Pennsylvania’s Decision to Propose Safe Drinking Water Standards for PFAS in Drinking Water
- PA GOP Senators Suit Dismissed (2021-06-11)
- FERC announces it will prepare an EIS for Adelphia’s Marcus Hook Electric Compressor Station (2021-05-28)
- Press Statement – Attorney General Josh Shapiro and PA Senate Democrats Seek to Address Fracking Negligence (2021-05-25)
- Statement from the Delaware Riverkeeper On FERC’s Latest Tolling Order Policy (2021-05-05)
- Organizations Call on President Biden to Stop Export of Liquefied Natural Gas (April 14, 2021)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network will mount legal challenge to National Park Service failure to enforce Wild and Scenic Rivers Act protections (1 April 2021)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network releases report highlighting Economic Benefit of Dissolved Oxygen in the Delaware River Estuary
- Court Affirms Decision Declaring State “Sweetheart Deal” with Bishop Tube Site Developer Void (March 5, 2021)
- Petition seeks immediate DRBC action to upgrade River designation (March 3, 2021)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Approved to Intervene in PA GOP Senators Lawsuit that Sought to Overturn Fracking Moratorium in Delaware River Basin (Feb. 26, 2021)
- Ban on Fracking adopted throughout Delaware River Watershed (Feb. 25, 2021)
- Frack Ban Coalition expects historic event February 25 at DRBC meeting (Feb. 18, 2021)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Files to Intervene in PA GOP Senators Suit that Seeks to Overturn Moratorium on Fracking in Delaware River Basin (Feb. 12, 2021)
- Supreme Court Agrees to Hear PennEast Case on States’ Rights (2021-02-03)
- Lawsuit by PA GOP to Overturn Fracking Moratorium Decried (15 January 2021)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network Rebuke of PA GOP Senators Suit Against Delaware River Basin Commission (2021-01-12)
- Statement: Insurrection By Fascists Is Not Protest, Its Insurrection
- Statement on Court Decision in Wayne Land Mineral Group case (January 6, 2021)
- Environmentalists demand PADEP deny PennEast Pipeline permits (January 6, 2021)