In July and August the federal DC Court of Appeals made three important decisions about FERC’s rubber-stamping ways. They overturned permits FERC had granted for two gas pipelines and three LNG export terminals in New Jersey, Texas and Louisiana: Commonwealth LNG, Rio Grande LNG, Texas LNG, Rio Bravo pipeline and the Regional Energy Access Expansion.

The primary reason was that FERC, in its review of these projects, did not take greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice for local communities seriously.

These three decisions were victories for all of us who have been fighting FERC’s rubber-stamping ways, but, unsurprisingly, FERC has done nothing to stop construction of these now-invalid projects since the court decisions. Bad policies die hard at FERC, so we need to keep up the pressure in many different ways.

On October 16-17, activists from BXE, Third Act and other groups will be conducting a 24-hour, overnight vigil in front of FERC before their October meeting.

On the afternoon of the 16th vigil participants will attempt to deliver a petition to FERC Chair Willie Phillips, calling upon him to immediately stop construction at all of these project sites. It is outrageous that FERC continues to defy these legal decisions as it tries to continue its decades-long policies in support of the fossil fuel industry

We need thousands of signatures on this petition to help make it clear how strong and wide the opposition is to FERC's action, and inaction. Please take a minute and sign onto this petition and help us circulate it!