Mountain Valley Pipeline Crews Versus COVID-19 in Virginia & West Virginia

August 25, 2020

Delegate Hurst’s bill aims to block pipeline worker surge in Southwest Virginia From an Article by Sarah Vogelsong, Virginia Mercury, August 24, 2020 A bill filed by Del. Chris Hurst, D-Montgomery, to require any employer hiring a crew of 50 or more temporary workers during the COVID-19 pandemic to receive approval from the commissioner of [...]

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Greenland’s Ice is Melting Beyond Recovery — Setting New Records

August 24, 2020

‘Canary in the Coal Mine’: Greenland Ice Has Shrunk Beyond Return, Study Finds From an Article by Cassandra Garrison, Reuters via Portside, August 16, 2020 Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests. [...]

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OMG: 77 Large Fires Burning 649,054 Acres in 14 States, says National Multi Agency Coordinating Group

August 23, 2020

Pine Gulch fire grows to 125,252 acres — now 2nd largest in Colorado’s recorded history From an Article by Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, August 19, 2020 Firefighters worked during the night battling the Pine Gulch fire. New evacuations were ordered on fire’s northwest side on Wednesday. The Pine Gulch fire north of Grand Junction exploded [...]

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Opposition Exists to Large Long-Distance Pipelines in Appalachia — No ACP, Stop MVP

August 22, 2020

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Honors ACP and MVP Opponents From Michael Barrick, Appalachian Chronicle, August 21, 2020 BENT MOUNTAIN, Va. — The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), its chapters and allies presented a Unity Banner to water protectors and pipeline fighters on Aug. 18 at the Bent Mountain Community Center. The Unity Banner [...]

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PA-DEP Levies Fines for Drilling/ Fracking/ Pipeline Violations in Penna.

August 21, 2020

CNX fined for 2019 shale gas blowout From an Article by Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, August 20, 2020 CNX Gas Co. LLC has agreed to pay a $175,000 fine to settle violations related to a January 2019 Utica Shale gas well blowout in Washington Township, Westmoreland County. The very visible well drilling failure allowed [...]

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LNG “Bomb Trains” thru Philadelphia Could Explode En-route to Delaware River Port

August 20, 2020

Rule allowing LNG rail shipments in US challenged in court From an Article by Marc Levy, Minneapolis Star Tribune (AP), August 18, 2020 HARRISBURG, Pa. — A coalition of six environmental advocacy groups asked a federal judge on Tuesday to block a new Trump administration rule to allow rail shipments of liquefied natural gas, a [...]

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Microplastics Contamination is Widespread in Human Tissue

August 19, 2020

Microplastics Found in Every Human Tissue Studied From a Presentation by Charles Rolsky, American Chemical Society, August 18, 2020 Plastic pollution of land, water and air is a global problem. Even when plastic bags or water bottles break down to the point at which they are no longer an eyesore, tiny fragments can still contaminate [...]

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Most of the West has Freak Severe Storms — Record Heat and Wild Fires

August 18, 2020

Record-crushing heat, fire tornadoes and freak thunderstorms: The weather is wild in the West From an Article by Jason Samenow and Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, August 17, 2020 The weather in the West has gone off the rails. Since late in the past week, the blistering heat has set scores of high-temperature records. The heat [...]

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A Source of Rare Earth Elements is Acid Mine Drainage

August 17, 2020

MON NEWS from Don Strimbeck, Mon County, WV, 8/15/20 Update by Paul Ziemkiewicz, WV Water Research Institute, Morgantown, WV Thanks for the invitation to update you on the recovery of rare earth elements from acid mine drainage. Our team at WVU and Virginia Tech identified acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mines back in 2015 [...]

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US EPA Reversing Controls on METHANE, a Powerful Greenhouse Gas

August 16, 2020

In Pittsburgh, EPA’s Andrew Wheeler announces methane rollbacks for oil and gas From an Article by Reid Frazier, StateImpact Pennsylvania, August 13, 2020 EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler came through Pittsburgh Thursday to announce a rollback of an Obama-era regulation on climate-warming methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. Big oil companies favored the rules, [...]

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