Earth Ministry / Washington Interfaith Power & Light

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Category: Tacoma LNG News

Puyallup Tribe and Community Organizations Challenge Decision Allowing Dangerous Tacoma LNG Facility to Operate

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The Puyallup Tribe of Indians and several community and environmental organizations are appealing the WA Pollution Control Hearings Board’s November decision to uphold Puget Sound Energy’s Tacoma LNG facility’s clean air permit in Pierce County Superior Court. The Puyallup Tribal Council said in a statement. “We were put here to protect these lands and waters and that is what we will continue to do. We will continue the fight. Too much is at stake.”

Tacoma LNG Appeal Denied

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People of faith have been in a prayerful stance of solidarity supporting the Puyallup Tribe and co-litigants' appeal of PSE's immoral project. We are incredibly disappointed that the PCHB failed to make the right decision to uphold the Tribe’s request for further review of this dirty and dangerous fracked gas facility.

Washington Communities Applaud Governor Inslee’s Opposition to Fracked Gas Projects

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Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light, as part of the Power Past Fracked Gas coalition, has been actively fighting against fracked gas within Washington for years. As Executive Director LeeAnne Beres states in this press release, “We are grateful that the Governor acknowledged that this is a matter of conscience. It is morally sound to invest in clean energy over dirty and dangerous fossil fuels such as fracked gas. People of faith will continue to call upon the permitting agencies to follow the Governor’s moral compass.”

Faith and human rights groups call for answers to safety risks associated with Tacoma LNG

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Tacoma, Wash.– A broad coalition of organizations representing indigenous communities, people of faith, immigrants’ rights advocates, and communities of color have come together to call attention to the safety risks associated with Puget Sound Energy’s eight million gallon liquefied natural…

Read More Faith and human rights groups call for answers to safety risks associated with Tacoma LNG

Advocates Respond to Puget Sound Clean Air Agency’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Tacoma LNG Facility

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Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light Executive Director LeeAnne Beres is quoted in this press release. This press release discusses the moral injustice of the Tacoma LNG plant and how advocates are joining together with the Puyallup Tribe to speak…

Read More Advocates Respond to Puget Sound Clean Air Agency’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Tacoma LNG Facility

Earth Ministry/WAIPL works within the unceded territories of Northwest Native nations. Our office is on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present. Land acknowledgement is one way to resist erasure of Indigenous histories as well as to honor tribes and the land itself.