Congress Urges Trump To Restore FERC, Communities Say ‘No!’

March 2nd, 2017

Awake Goy

Above photo: Ann Bristow and Gina Angiola help block one of the entrances at FERC.//photo by e. hoffman

Letters from Congress Urging Trump to Restore FERC Commissioner Quorum Draws Swift Rebuke from 136 Organizations Representing Communities Nationwide

Responding to two letters sent by members of Congress urging President Donald Trump to prioritize nominating candidates for vacant Commissioner seats at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in order to restore the necessary voting quorum, 136 organizations representing communities in all 50 states sent a strong letter of rebuke to the Congressional signers of the letters.

The two letters, dated February 22, 2017, were signed by a group of 14 House Democrats on one and 92 additional members of Congress on the other. The letters urged Mr. Trump to put forth the nominations in order to restore the FERC Commissioner quorum necessary to take formal action on energy issues. In addition to urging swift action by the President, on one of the letters the Congressional members promised “to do our part”, suggesting that they would likewise take swift action to approve nominees put forth by the President.

According to the letter of opposition signed by the 136 environmental and community organizations, reestablishing a quorum at FERC would re-open the floodgates for FERC approval of natural gas infrastructure and pipeline projects. The letter (attached) reads in part:

“[W]e were deeply disturbed by your February 22, 2017 letter …. Rather than advocating for the installation of new FERC Commissioners, you should be doing all you can to forestall the nomination and approval process ….

Communities across the nation are being harmed by the indiscriminate, ill-informed and misguided approvals rolling out of FERC for natural gas infrastructure projects. …

Until Congress has investigated the abuses of power and law by FERC, including the biased and self-serving decisionmaking advanced by its Commissioners and staff, and put in place needed reforms you should oppose restoration of a quorum of FERC Commissioners ….”

“FERC is a biased and abusive agency that is the epitome of a rubber stamp when it comes to pipeline infrastructure projects,” said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. “With this letter, House Democrats are showing that they would rather stand with the pipeline industry than protect the people they were elected to serve. We represent communities across the nation that are being hurt for a fossil fuel industry that needs to be retired, not reinvigorated with more pipelines,” van Rossum added.

“Democrats and Republicans in Congress should get serious about taking action to protect the American people and our overheated planet. That means an investigation into FERC’s abusive approach toward communities facing new gas pipelines and other gas infrastructure, followed by action. We don’t need a FERC which rubber stamps new fossil fuel infrastructure; we need an agency that leads the urgently-needed shift from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources like wind and solar,” said Ted Glick, representative of Beyond Extreme Energy.

“FERC is a rogue agency that does nothing but push pipelines for the gas industry and they are out of control. FERC works for the gas companies and not the people of the United States. It’s outrageous that the Democratic Congressmen want to empower FERC by allowing them to begin rubberstamping dangerous and devastating pipelines all over again. They’re siding with Donald Trump and Big Gas companies over the people of the United States. All they’re doing is enabling FERC to risk our water supply with fracking, destroy open spice with pipelines, and add to climate change impacts. These Congressmen need to stand up for the people of the US, and for the environment, by opposing any nominations to FERC,” said Jeff Tittel, Director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.

“Many aspects of the process used by FERC to approve infrastructure projects violates our Constitutional rights. This process needs to be reviewed by Congress and reforms put in place before a new Commissioner is confirmed,” said Paul Gierofsky with The Coalition to Reroute Nexus (CoRN).

“From the ancient origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in regions of the Middle East where water was scarce and wellsprings were sacred, to the struggle at Standing Rock in our own generation- religious and spiritual wisdom has said again and again: ‘Water is Life!’. Yet today FERC has been encouraging the proliferation of pipelines bearing dangerous gases and oils that threaten the purity of our water and air and the health of all who live nearby, and through the process of C02 and methane emissions have been worsening the climate crisis and its dangers to human communities and other life-forms throughout our planet. So The Shalom Center joins many other groups deeply rooted in our religious, spiritual and ethical traditions to urge that FERC’s operations be held in suspension and its empty seats left unfilled while its policies and its connections to the companies it regulates are investigated,” said Rabbi Arthur Waskow from The Shalom Center.

In addition to the regional and national organizations signed on to the letter, there are environmental and community groups representing communities in: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Washington DC. Community Opposition letter and two Congressional letters are attached.

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Delaware Riverkeeper Network ~ Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy The Coalition to Reroute Nexus (CoRN) ~ Allegheny Defense Project Coastal Monmouth Democratic Club ~ Gas Free Seneca ~ Cook Inletkeeper Berks Gas Truth ~ Preserve Roanoke/Bent Mountain Delaware Township Citizens against the PennEast Pipeline (DTCAP) Save the River / Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper Environmental Justice Task Force of the WNY Peace Center Advocates for Springfield, NY ~ Sustainable Medina County ~ Earth Action, Inc. Hill Town Community Rights ~ ECHO Action NH Stop Fracking the Rio Grande Valley ~ Preserve Franklin Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus ~ Prince William Soundkeeper Safe Energy Rights Group, Inc. ~ Tristates Unite for Safe Energy Protect Our Water Heritage Rights Coalition – POWHR Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community ~ Beyond Extreme Energy Greenbelt Climate Action Network ~ Patriots from the Oil and Gas Shales Concerned Citizens of Otego NY ~ Complete It Cuomo Farmers and Families for Livingston ~ Compressor Free Franklin WNY Drilling Defense ~ People Over Pipelines ~ Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE) SCRAM ~ Marcellus Outreach Butler ~ 350Brooklyn.org Concerned Burlington Neighbors ~ Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter ~ Orange Residents against Pilgrim Pipelines Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air ~ Fossil Free Tompkins Sierra Club West Virginia ~ Sustainable Warwick ~ Sane Energy Project Exodus Acres ~ Catskill Mountainkeeper ~ Green Sanctuary Committee, CCNY, UU Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) ~ Popular Resistance Elmirans and Friends against Fracking ~ No Fracked Gas in Mass New York Climate Action Group ~ Coalition against the Rockaway Pipeline We Are Seneca Lake ~ Deep Green Resistance New York Bronx Climate Justice North Already Devalued and Devastated Homeowners of Parsippany Rainforest Relief ~ Peacemakers of Schoharie County Union County (NJ) Peace Council ~ The AMP Creeks Council ~ Frack Busters NY Novalia ~ Aquashicola/ Pohopoco Watershed Conservancy Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline ~ Responsible-Pipeline.com Rochester Pachamama Alliance ~ Resist Spectra Grassroots Environmental Education ~ NY Water Action Howard County (MD) Climate Action ~ Human Essentials ~ Sierra Club Voters Occupy ~ Cleveland Environmental Action Network Marsha De Broske Fine Arts ~ Plymouth Friends of Clean Water Occupy Bergen County ~ Summit County Progressive Democrats Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development Page 2 of 13 Schuylkill Pipeline Awareness ~ Advocates for Cherry Valley ~ We Are Cove Point Landscape Alternatives, LLC ~ The Wei ~ People Over Pipelines Chesterfield, NJ Preserve Montgomery County Virginia ~ Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Citizens for Water ~ NYH2o ~ Concerned Residents of Oxford ~ 350NYC Rochester Defense against Fracking ~ People, Not Pipelines Island Time of Hollywood ~ DF Blazer Sales & Warehouse Winyah Rivers Foundation, Inc. ~ Parsons School of Design Holland Township Citizens against the Pipeline Responsible Drilling Alliance (RDA) ~ Suwannee Riverkeeper Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) ~ Climate 911 Breathe Easy Susquehanna County ~ Franciscan Response to Fracking ROAR against Fracking ~ Summers County Residents Against the Pipeline New Paltz Climate Action Coalition ~ Milwaukee Riverkeeper Preserve Giles County ~ New Progressive Alliance ~ Food & Water Watch The Throw Shop ~ Green America ~ Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources Sandisfield Taxpayers Opposing the Pipeline (S.T.O.P) ~ Resist the Pipeline BGSU Environmental Action Group ~ Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development People Demanding Action ~ 350 Loudoun ~ FreshWater Accountability Project Green Futures ~ Coalition for Responsible Siting of LNG Facilities South Coast Neighbors United ~ Wilmerding & Hillier Associated Appraisers LLC Northjersey Pipeline Walkers ~ Citizen Coalition for Wildlife and Environment The Shalom Center ~ Mothers Out Front ~ ClimateMama Mountain Lakes Preservation Alliance ~ SnakeChaarmer Herpetological

Date: March 1, 2017

To: Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III Rep. Paul D. Tonko Rep. William R. Keating Rep. John P. Sarbanes Rep. James P. McGovern Rep. Michael E. Capuano Rep. Stephen F. Lynch Rep. Niki Tsongas Rep. Peter Welch Rep. Seth Moulton Rep. Diana DeGette Rep. Katherine M. Clark Rep. Richard E. Neal Rep. Bobby L. Rush Rep. Tim Walberg Rep. Fred Upton Rep. Steve Scalise Rep. John Shimkus Rep. Joe Barton Rep. Tim Murphy Rep. Marsha Blackburn Rep. Sam Graves Rep. Mike Johnson Rep. Kevin Cramer Rep. Randy Weber Rep. David McKinley Rep. Ryan Costello Rep. Gene Green Rep. Bob Gibbs Rep. Gregg Harper Rep. Kevin Yoder Rep. Adam Kinzinger Page 3 of 13 Rep. Ann Wagner Rep. Bill Flores Rep. Patrick Meehan Rep. Buddy Carter Rep. Tom MacArthur Rep. Jerry McNerney Rep. Billy Long Rep. Bill Johnson Rep. Steve Stivers Rep. Jason Smith Rep. Gus Bilirakis Rep. Vicky Hartzler Rep. Pete Olson Rep. Roger Marshall Rep. Dave Trott Rep. Mike Bost Rep. Lynn Jenkins Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, II Rep. Donald Norcross Rep. Debbie Dingell Rep. Joe Wilson Rep. Rodney Davis Rep. Mark Pocan Rep. Scott Perry Rep. Trent Kelly Rep. Daniel Lipinski Rep. Ken Buck Rep. Richard Hudson Rep. Mo Brooks Rep. Kurt Schrader Rep. Cedric Richmond Rep. Steve Womack Rep. Garret Graves Rep. Mike Rogers Rep. Charles Dent Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer Rep. Mike Doyle Rep. Scott Peters Rep. Susan W. Brooks Rep. Bennie G. Thompson Rep. Bill Huizenga Rep. Mimi Walters Rep. John Moolenaar Rep. Markwayne Mullin Rep. Jack Bergman Rep. Bruce Westerman Rep. John Katko Rep. Steven Palazzo Rep. Mike Bishop Rep. Randy Hultgren Rep. Darin LaHood Rep. David Rouzer Rep. Paul Mitchell Rep. Doug Lamborn Rep. Bradley Byrne Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger Rep. Ben Ray Lujan Rep. Larry Bucshon Rep. Jody Hice Rep. Ralph Abraham Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler Rep. Clay Higgins Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Rep. Rick Crawford Rep. Jim Costa Rep. Yvette D. Clarke Rep. David Scott Rep. Doug LaMalfa Rep. Chris Collins Rep. Scott Tipton Rep. Paul Gosar Rep. Evan Jenkins

Cc: Chairman Fred Upton, House Energy & Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, House Energy & Commerce Committee Members of House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski, Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Members of Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources

Dear Congressional Representatives,

On behalf of communities across the nation who are being abused by the misuse of power and law by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), we were deeply disturbed by your February 22, 2017 and February 28, 2017 letters urging swift nomination and approval of new FERC Commissioners.

Rather than advocating for the installation of new FERC Commissioners, you should be doing all you can to forestall the nomination and approval process. Without a quorum FERC cannot issue Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity to natural gas infrastructure projects using its abusive, biased and conflict-ridden review and approval process for which the approval is a foregone conclusion and not the result of objective consideration of facts, impacts and need.

Communities across the nation are being harmed by the indiscriminate, ill-informed and misguided approvals rolling out of FERC for natural gas infrastructure projects. FERC has proven itself to be an agency with unparalleled bias – approving every natural gas interstate transmission line brought before its Commissioners for approval. In 30 years FERC’s Commissioners have said “no” to only one, just one, gas pipeline project brought before it for approval. Not only are communities being harmed by the pipelines themselves, but they are being mistreated by FERC throughout the review process.

Until Congress has investigated the abuses of power and law by FERC, including the biased and selfserving decisionmaking advanced by its Commissioners and staff, and put in place needed reforms you should oppose restoration of a quorum of FERC Commissioners. Among the many reforms that must be undertaken before a quorum is restored are: the removal of eminent domain power; a prohibition on the use of tolling orders that prevent legal challenges to FERC approvals before pipelines go into construction; a prohibition on the stripping and undermining of state legal authority by FERC; a mandatory public participation process that provides for meaningful access and input; a mandatory determination that there is a genuine need for a project that genuinely serves the public interest (as opposed to corporate greed and goals); a prohibition on the use of consultants that have conflicts of interest and/or work for the industry; a prohibition on self-dealing by the pipeline companies in their claims of need; an end to the employee revolving door between FERC staff and the industry; a clear and enforced prohibition on conflicts of interest by FERC Commissioners …. just to name a few.

In order to genuinely serve the public interest you must take a strong stand against approval of any new Commissioners to FERC until such time as the House and Senate have held hearings investigating the bias and misuse of authority demonstrated by FERC, its employees and Commissioners and needed reforms have been identified, proposed and passed.

Signed,

Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network Representing communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware Jill Wiener, Co-founder, for the Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Representing communities in New York ,Paul L. Gierosky, Cofounder, for The Coalition to Reroute Nexus (CoRN) Representing communities in Ohio and Michigan Ryan Talbott, Executive Director, for the Allegheny Defense Project Representing communities in Pennsylvania Kathy Maher, President, for the Coastal Monmouth Democratic Club Representing communities in New Jersey Yvonne Taylor, Vice President, for Gas Free Seneca Representing communities in New York Bob Shavelson, Inletkeeper, for the Cook Inletkeeper Representing communities in Alaska Karen Feridun, Founder, for Berks Gas Truth Representing communities in Pennsylvania Roberta Bondurant, Community Advocate, for Preserve Roanoke/Bent Mountain Representing communities in Virginia Debra Bradley, Secretary, for the Delaware Township Citizens Against the PennEast Pipeline (DTCAP) Representing communities in New Jersey Lee Willbanks, Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper / Executive Director, for Save The River / Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper Representing communities in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Arizona, Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Charley Bowman, Co-Chair, for Environmental Justice Task Force of the WNY Peace Center Representing communities in New York Tara Sumner, Vice President, for Advocates for Springfield, NY Representing communities in New York Katharine Jones, Organizer, Sustainable Medina County Representing communities in Ohio Mary Gutierrez, Executive Director, for Earth Action, Inc. Representing communities in Florida, Colorado, California Delta Carney, Hill Town Community Rights Representing communities in Massachusetts Stephanie Scherr, Founder, for ECHO Action NH Representing communities in New Hampshire Page 13 of 13 Elaine Cimino, Director, for Stop Fracking the Rio Grande Valley Representing communities in New Mexico Darlene Hines, for Preserve Franklin Representing communities in Virginia Steve Holecko, Political Director, for Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus Representing communities in Ohio Kate McLaughlin, President, for Prince William Soundkeeper Representing communities in Alaska Nancy Vann, President, for Safe Energy Rights Group, Inc. Representing communities in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island Tom Denny, Chair, for Tristates Unite for Safe Energy Representing communities in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey Ellen Darden, Co-Chair, Protect Our Water Heritage Rights Coalition – POWHR Representing communities in Virginia and West Virginia Paul V. Ferrazzi, Executive Director, for Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community Representing communities in California Lee Stewart, Organizer, for Beyond Extreme Energy Lore Rosenthal, Program Coordinator, for Greenbelt Climate Action Network Representing communities in Maryland Craig Stevens, Founder, for Patriots From The Oil And Gas Shales Representing communities in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Florida Stuart Anderson, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizens of Otego NY Representing communities in New York Christine Macpherson, Founder, for Complete It Cuomo Representing communities in New York Pamela Kline, Founder, for Farmers and Families for Livingston Representing communities in New York Donald A. Hebbard, President / Founder, for Compressor Free Franklin Representing communities in New York Frank Gage, Environmental Justice Task Force Co-Chair, WNY Drilling Defense Representing communities in New York Page 13 of 13 Glenn Ashton, Treasurer, for People Over Pipelines Representing communities in New Jersey Susan Van Dolsen, Cofounder, for Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE) Representing communities in New York and Connecticut George Billard, Founding Member, for SCRAM Representing communities in New York and Pennsylvania Diane Sipe, President, for Marcellus Outreach Butler Representing communities in Pennsylvania Sara S. Gronim, Co-Leader, for 350Brooklyn.org Representing communities in New York Suzy Winkler, Co-founder, Concerned Burlington Neighbors Representing communities in New York Marie McRae, Spokesperson, for Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition Representing communities in New York Randolph Hurst, Chairman of the Ramapo/Catskill Conservation Group, for Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Representing communities in New York Sandra Kissam, Chair, for Orange Residents Against Pilgrim Pipelines Representing communities in New York State Jenny Lisak, Co-director, for Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air Representing communities in Pennsylvania Irene Wesier, Coordinator, for Fossil Free Tompkins Representing communities in New York Chris Hale, Chair of Conservation Committee, for Sierra Club West Virginia Representing communities in West Virginia Russ Layne, Infrastructure Committee Co-Chairman, for Sustainable Warwick Representing communities in New York Kim Fraczek, Co-Director, for the Sane Energy Project Representing communities in New York M Neville Wall, Owner, for Exodus Acres Representing communities in Massachusetts Wes Gillingham, Program Director, for Catskill Mountainkeeper Representing communities in New York Page 13 of 13 Gusti Bogok, Chair, for Green Sanctuary Committee, CCNY, UU Representing communities in New York Joelle Novey, Director, for Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) Representing communities in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia Margaret Flowers, Co-director, for Popular Resistance Representing communities in nationwide Doug Couchon, for Elmirans and Friends Against Fracking Representing communities in New York Rosemary Wessel, Founder / Director, for No Fracked Gas in Mass Representing communities in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire Judith K. Canepa, Co-Founder, for New York Climate Action Group Representing communities in New York Judith K. Canepa, Coordinator, for Coalition Against the Rockaway Pipeline Representing communities in New York Peter Drobny, WASL Liaison, for We Are Seneca Lake Representing communities in New York Mike Bucci, Campaigns Coordinator, for Deep Green Resistance New York Jennifer Scarlott, Coordinator, for Bronx Climate Justice North Representing communities in New York Ken Dolsky, Founder, for Already Devalued and Devastated Homeowners of Parsippany Representing communities in New Jersey Tim Keating, Director, for Rainforest Relief Representing communities nationwide Wayne Stinson, Action Committee Member, for Peacemakers of Schoharie County Representing communities in New York Diane Beeny, Chair, for Union County (NJ) Peace Council Representing communities in New Jersey and New York Kelly Canavan, President, for The AMP Creeks Council Representing communities in the Mid-Atlantic Mary Finneran, Founding Member and CC Member, for Frack Busters NY Representing communities in New York Page 13 of 13 Sheila Bay, Program Director, for Novalia Representing communities in New Hampshire James Vogt, President, for Aquashicola/ Pohopoco Watershed Conservancy Representing communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Becky Meier, Co-Founder, for Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline Representing communities in New York Walter Helfrecht , Webmaster & I Public Relations Manager, for Responsible-Pipeline.com Representing communities in New Jersey Nancy KasperFacilitator, for Rochester Pachamama Alliance Representing communities in New York Tina Volz-Bongar, Pipeline Monitor & Fundraising Coordinator, for Resist Spectra Representing communities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island Patricia Wood, Executive Director, for Grassroots Environmental Education Representing communities nationwide Ann Finneran, Authorized Member, NY Water Action Representing communities in New York Elisabeth Hoffman, Advocacy Team Member, Howard County (MD) Climate Action Representing communities in Maryland Gloria Betlem, Owner, for Human Essentials Representing communities in New York, Florida Julia Howell, ARNP, for the Sierra Club Representing communities in Florida Noz Cavan, Founder, for Voters Occupy Representing communities in New York Anne Cat, Core Group Member, for Cleveland Environmental Action Network Representing communities in Ohio Marsha De Broske, for Marsha De Broske Fine Arts Representing communities in Florida Peter Hudiburg, Founder, for Plymouth Friends of Clean Water Representing communities in New York Sally Jane Gellert, Committee of Correspondence Chairperson, for Occupy Bergen County Representing communities in New Jersey Page 13 of 13 Valerie McKitrick, Board Member, Summit County Progressive Democrats Representing communities in Ohio Larysa Dyrszka, Co-founder, for Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development Representing communities in New York Leah Zerbe, Co-Founder, for Schuylkill Pipeline Awareness Representing communities in Pennsylvania Lynn Ellen Marsh, Trustee, President, for Advocates for Cherry Valley Representing communities in New York Donny Williams, Organizer, for We Are Cove Point Douglas DeLong, Partner, Owner, for Landscape Alternatives, LLC Representing communities in New York Kimi Wei, CEO, for the The Wei Representing communities in New Jersey Agnes Marsala, President, for People Over Pipelines Chesterfield, NJ Representing communities in New Jersey Thomas E Adams, III Chair, for Preserve Montgomery County Virginia Representing communities in Virginia B. Arrindell, Director, for Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Representing communities in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, California Joe Levine, Director, for Citizens For Water Buck Moorhead, Chair, for NYH2o Daniel Taylor, Co-founder, Concerned Residents of Oxford Representing communities in New York Pat Almonrode, Steering Committee Member, for 350NYC Representing communities in New York Toby Stover, Founding Member, for Rochester Defense Against Fracking Representing communities in New York Colleen McKinney, Cofounder, for People, Not Pipelines Representing communities in New York Tiffany Grantham, Owner, for the Island Time of Hollywood Representing communities in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Florida Page 13 of 13 Dawn Collier, Retail Territory Manager, for DF Blazer Sales & Warehouse Christine Ellis, Deputy Director, for the Winyah Rivers Foundation, Inc. Representing communities in North Carolina and South Carolina Jess Irish, Professor, Parsons School of Design Representing communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut Lorraine Crown, Holland Township Citizens Against the Pipeline Representing communities in New Jersey Robert Cross, President, for the Responsible Drilling Alliance (RDA) Representing communities in Pennsylvania John S. Quarterman, Suwannee Riverkeeper, for the WWALS Watershed Coalition Representing communities in Georgia, Florida, California, and New York Jane Winn, Executive Director, for Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) Representing communities in Massachusetts Wendy Ring, Director, for Climate 911 Representing communities in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Vermont, Colorado, and Illinois Rebecca Roter, Chairperson Co-Founder, for Breathe Easy Susquehanna County Representing communities in Pennsylvania Jackie Schramm, Coordinator, for Franciscan Response to Fracking Representing communities in New Jersey Allegra Schecter, Founder, for ROAR Against Fracking Representing communities in New York Chris Chanlett, Coordinating Committee, for Summers County Residents Against the Pipeline Representing communities in West Virginia Jo Salas, Member, for the New Paltz Climate Action Coalition Representing communities in New York Cheryl Nenn, Riverkeeper, for the Milwaukee Riverkeeper Representing communities in Wisconsin Richard Shingles, Coordinator, for Preserve Giles County Representing communities in Virginia Ed Griffith, Liason Officer, for New Progressive Alliance Emily Wurth, Organizing Co-Director, for Food & Water Watch Representing communities across the nation Page 13 of 13 Ben Calhoun, Owner,for The Throw Shop Representing communities in Michigan Todd Larsen, Executive Co-Director, for Green America Representing communities nationwide Rev. James Davis, Environmental Director, for the Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources Representing communities in New York, New Jersey, South Dakota, Arizona, and New Mexico Jean Atwater-Williams, Founding Member, for Sandisfield Taxpayers Opposing the Pipeline (S.T.O.P) Representing communities in Massachusetts James Michel, Co-founder, for Resist the Pipeline Representing communities in Massachusetts Daniel R. Myers, E.A.G. President, for BGSU Environmental Action Group Representing communities in Ohio Linda Reik, Board of Directors member, Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development Representing communities in New York Andrea Miller, Executive Director, People Demanding Action Representing communities nationwide Amanda Tandy, Co-chair, for 350 Loudoun Representing communities in Virginia Lea Harper, Managing Director, FreshWater Accountability Project Representing communities in Ohio Joseph F. Carvalho, for Green Futures Representing communities in Massachusetts Joseph F. Carvalho, for Coalition for Responsible Siting of LNG Facilities Representing communities in Massachusetts Joseph F. Carvalho, for South Coast Neighbors United Representing communities in Massachusetts Ramona Hillier-O’Hara, for Wilmerding & Hillier Associated Appraisers LLC Representing communities in New Jersey Diane Wexler, Co-Founder, for the Northjersey Pipeline Walkers Representing communities in New Jersey Dave Reilly, Co-Founder, for the Citizen Coalition for Wildlife and Environment Representing communities in New York Page 13 of 13 Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director, for The Shalom Center Representing communities in almost all US states Neely Kelley, Mothers Out Front New York State Lead Organizer, for Mothers Out Front Representing communities in New York Harriet Shugarman, Executive Director, for ClimateMama April Keating, President, Mountain Lakes Preservation Alliance Representing communities in West Virginia Leigh McKay, Small Business Owner, RPt, HtL, for SnakeChaarmer Herpetological Representing communities in Florida

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