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Jess Sims
@suntostandstill.bsky.social
Fighting for Virginia's environment & listening to Yes.
#NoMVP #NoMVPSouthgate #NoSSEP
VA Field Coordinator at http://appvoices.org
(opinions are my own)
Chesterfield residents oppose planned Dominion gas plant: 'These pollutants are dangerous' richmond.com/news/local/g...
Chesterfield residents oppose planned Dominion gas plant: 'These pollutants are dangerous'
"All of these pollutants are dangerous to us," one person said. "All of these would increase cancer and asthma rates in our community and would worsen the overall health of
richmond.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Watch my full questioning here:
McClellan Questions Effect of Reckless Workforce Cuts on Pipeline Safety Information
YouTube video by Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan
youtu.be
July 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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5️⃣ years ago today, community opposition forced #DominionEnergy & #DukeEnergy to cancel their plans to build the #AtlanticCoastPipeline. On 7/5, we celebrate the community members, activists, & organizations that fought to defeat the 600-mile ACP! https://loom.ly/X-GXnec
July 5: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cancellation Day!
Join us in celebrating five years of shutting down the Atlantic Coast Pipeline! On July 5, 2020, community opposition forced Dominion Energy and Duke Energy to announce they were shutting down plans to build the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline. West Virginia, Virginia and West Virginia North Carolina residents united across state lines to put an…
appvoices.org
July 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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5 years ago today, community opposition forced #DominionEnergy & #DukeEnergy to cancel their plans to build the #AtlanticCoastPipeline. On July 5, we celebrate the community members, activists + orgs that fought for 6 years to defeat the 600-mile ACP! Stay organizing! (Via @appvoices.org)
July 5: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cancellation Day!
Join us in celebrating five years of shutting down the Atlantic Coast Pipeline! On July 5, 2020, community opposition forced Dominion Energy and Duke Energy to announce they were shutting down plans t...
appvoices.org
July 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Need help placing a call? We've got you covered — join our call-in action on Thursday, June 26, at 12 p.m. and we'll guide you through the process of ringing up your senators!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Holler from the Hollers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Congress is advancing one of the most extensive anti-environmental, anti-health bills in a generation. During our "Holler from the Hollers" call-in event, we'll help you place calls to your senators b...
us02web.zoom.us
June 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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June 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The Senate will soon vote on a sweeping bill that has broad impacts shaping everything from energy development to health care to public lands.

📣 Call your senators and tell them to keep America healthy and protect future generations! appvoices.org/actions/stop...
June 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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News of the lawsuit “underscores the concerns raised by community members along the pipeline route that there was no safe way to construct the ruinous #MountainValleyPipeline,” said Jessica Sims of appvoices.org

roanoke.com/news/local/b...
Inspector for MVP claims he was fired for reporting safety concerns
A welding inspector says he was transferred when he refused to create false inspection reports for three sections of pipeline that were corroded. Later, he said he was fired in a retaliatory action fo...
roanoke.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Transco plans another natural gas pipeline project for Virginia cardinalnews.org/2025/05/13/a...
Transco plans another natural gas pipeline project for Virginia
The pipeline would run north from a Chatham compressor station to "serve the power-hungry Virginia market," the developer says.
cardinalnews.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A grassroots fight against data centers builds in rural Pittsylvania County cardinalnews.org/2025/04/14/a...
A grassroots fight against data centers builds in rural Pittsylvania County
Residents fear that the cultural fabric of their rural community would be forever changed by the arrival of massive data center projects.
cardinalnews.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Elon Musk’s DOGE is gutting programs that screen coal miners for black lung. Help contact members of Congress to tell them to protect NIOSH and programs that support miners:. #BlackLungKills appvoices.org/actions/prot...
Stand up for coal miners by opposing cuts to NIOSH!
Tell your members of Congress to speak out against DOGE cuts to NIOSH and stand up for coal miners’ health!
appvoices.org
April 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trump administration rescinds $500,000 EPA grant to fund a community project helping 5 Southwest Virginia communities cardinalnews.org/2025/04/07/t...
Trump administration rescinds $500,000 EPA grant to fund a community project helping 5 Southwest Virginia communities
Appalachian Voices, the nonprofit that's working with the five communities, has filed an administrative appeal to contest the decision.
cardinalnews.org
April 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Energy Transfer leader won big over Greenpeace recently. If they win this next court fight, pipeline safety enforcement could "grind to a halt." www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump ally seeks to topple pipeline safety enforcement
An energy company led by GOP megadonor Kelcy Warren wants the process for penalizing violations declared “unconstitutional."
www.eenews.net
March 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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BURIED ALIVE! In a Thanksgiving eve filing w/ @FERC, Mountain Valley Pipeline tries to bury the incredible news that the est final cost of this climate busting corporate boondoggle is close to $10 BILLION! $9,666,688,932 to be exact. The original 2014 estimate was $3.5 billion.
November 29, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Important information on shelters, assistance and supply/food drives and places to make monetary donations:
appvoices.org/helene-relief/
Catastrophic impacts from Hurricane Helene devastate Appalachia
Over a period of three days, Southern and Central Appalachia experienced unprecedented rainfall from a combination of a historic rain event and Hurricane
appvoices.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:01 PM