Range Resources Assessed $150,000 in Penalties for Violations at S.W. Penna. Marcellus Gas Well Pads

June 15, 2020

Range Resources to pay $50,000 in fines and $100,000 in contributions for Washington County well violations From an Article by Deb Erdley, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 6/12/20 Range Resources, a major driller in the region’s Marcellus Shale industry, pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of negligent oversight of Washington County well sites and will pay [...]

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Fracking Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be, In These Times

June 14, 2020

Fracking Once Lifted Pennsylvania. Now It Could Be a Drag. From an Article by Peter Eavis, New York Times, March 31, 2020 CARMICHAELS, Pa. — The last time the global economy was in free fall, an economic savior showed up in southwestern Pennsylvania. Energy companies, which had discovered a way to get at the state’s [...]

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UPDATE: Ethane Utilization as PetroChemical Feedstock

June 13, 2020

PTTGC sets FID deadline by Q1 2021, Dow Canada PE expansion timeline unchanged, Braskem losses deepen News Briefs from PetroChem Update, June 4, 2020 1. Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical sets new FID deadline by March 2021 Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical’s Final Investment Decision (FID) on whether to build an ethylene-polyethylene complex in Belmont County, Ohio [...]

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Air Pollution and Respiratory Infections Including COVID-19: Q & A

June 12, 2020

AIR POLLUTION & RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS SUCH AS COVID-19 From the Newsletter of the Environmental Health Project, Summer, Issue 6, June 2020 EHP has been taking an active look at the connection between air pollution and respiratory infections such as COVID-19. What we’re finding is a stronger relationship than you might imagine. As our blog post [...]

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Billboard in Moundsville Opposes Ohio Valley PetroHub

June 11, 2020

Fighting the Ohio Valley PetroHub — Let’s Join & Work Together . From a Newsletter of the FreshWater Accountability Project, June 8, 2020 Last month FreshWater Accountability Project put up a Billboard in Moundsville to help protect the Ohio River Valley from petrochemical projects. FWAP hopes the billboard will raise awareness about projects that threaten [...]

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Serious Air Pollution Impacts Associated with Drilling & Fracking Activities

June 10, 2020

Air pollution from fracking killed an estimated 20 people in Pennsylvania from 2010-2017 From an Article by Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News, June 5, 2020 Scientists say spikes in particulate matter pollution near wells are cutting lives short. Particulate matter pollution emitted by Pennsylvania’s fracking wells killed about 20 people between 2010 and 2017, according [...]

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Low Birth-Weight Babies Discovered in the Oil & Gas Fields of California

June 9, 2020

Living near oil and gas wells tied to low birth weights in infants From a Press Release by Kara Manke, Univ. California (Berkeley) News, June 3, 2020 . Living near active oil and gas wells may put pregnant people at higher risk of having low birth weight babies, especially in rural areas, finds a new [...]

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Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Effects on Household Water in West Virginia

June 8, 2020

Household Water Security: An Analysis of Water Affect in the Context of Hydraulic Fracturing in West Virginia, Appalachia From a Publication by Bethani Turley and Martina Angela Caretta, Dept. of Geology and Geography, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV, Jan. 3, 2020 SOURCE: Water 2020, 12(1), 147; Jan. 3, 2020 ABSTRACT OF PUBLICATION Hydraulic fracturing has [...]

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The Time has Come to Apply ‘Environment Justice’ Criteria to Energy Projects

June 7, 2020

INSIGHT: Fourth Circuit Rules ‘Environmental Justice Is Not Merely a Box to Be Checked’ From an Article by Simone Jones & Nicole Noëlliste, Sidney Austin LLP, Bloomberg Law, March 5, 2020 The conventional wisdom in the environmental bar is that “environmental justice” remains an aspirational goal, rather than a concrete compliance point. The U.S. Court [...]

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Updated Environmental Review Requested for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in WV & VA

June 6, 2020

Environmental groups open new line of attack at FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline From an Article by Maya Weber, S & P Global — Platts, June 1, 2020 Washington — A coalition of environmental groups opened June 1 a new front in their legal war against the 600-mile, 1.5 Bcf/d Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, contending [...]

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