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2023 Releases

2022 Releases

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)