Diversified Gas & Oil is Active in Pennsylvania & West Virginia

May 26, 2020

Diversified Gas & Oil to acquire 900 Appalachian wells from EQT From an Article of Kallanish Energy News, May 14, 2020 Alabama-based Diversified Gas & Oil PLC is purchasing 900 wells in West Virginia and Pennsylvania from gas giant EQT for $125 million, Kallanish Energy reports. The assets being purchased include 67 horizontal wells in [...]

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Comment Period Extended for VIRGINIA NATURAL GAS “Header Improvement Project”

May 25, 2020

Comment Period Extended for Header Improvement Project Virtual Comment Writing Party Virginia Natural Gas (VNG) Header Improvement Project The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has extended the comment period for the proposed Header Improvement Project (HIP), a proposal by Virginia Natural Gas for a pipeline expansion to serve a new power plant in Charles City, [...]

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LECTURE: Religion & Climate Change ~~ An Overview

May 24, 2020

Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: “Religion and Climate Change,” Thursday, May 14, 2020 SPEAKER — Mary Evelyn TUCKER, Senior Lecturer, Senior Research Scholar, and Codirector of the Forum of Religion and Ecology, Yale University HOST — Irina A. FASKIANOS, Vice President for National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) FASKIANOS: Hello and welcome [...]

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CANCER and CLIMATE CHANGE — More Related Than You Thought

May 23, 2020

Climate change is fueling extreme weather that lowers cancer survival rate and threatens prevention From an Article by Emma Newburger, CNBC, May 18, 2020 PHOTO in Article — People make their way out of a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain water, remnants of Hurricane Harvey, on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas [...]

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A New Phase in Electricity Generation & Utilization

May 22, 2020

It’s time to electrify the Commonwealth of Virginia Essay by Chris Meyer and John Semmelhack, Virginia Mercury, May 21, 2020 In Virginia, the time to adopt policies to promote electricity over natural gas has come. Widespread electrification of space heating, water heating and cooking has the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions and improve public [...]

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§ WV Rivers Coalition is Hosting a Climate and Water Webinar Series

May 21, 2020

NEWS: WV Rivers Coalition Program Announcement, May 16, 2020 WV Environmental Council passes along news from WV Rivers, May 20, 2020. West Virginians are seeing the effects of the changing climate and researchers across the state are studying what it means for West Virginia. Over the next few weeks, WV Rivers will be highlighting these [...]

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Dominion Energy Struggles With Planning for a Clean Energy Future

May 20, 2020

What part of ‘zero’ doesn’t Dominion understand? From an Essay by Ivy Main, Virginia Mercury, May 14, 2020 The more things change, the more they stay the same. Dominion Energy Virginia filed its 2020 Integrated Resource Plan on May 1. Instead of charting the electric utility’s pathway to zero carbon emissions, it announced its intent [...]

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A-Z Impacts of Plastics Digital Series (PA, OH, WV & KY)

May 19, 2020

From Fracked Gas to Plastic Pollution in the Ohio River Valley and Beyond Join to access the monthly webinar series and discussions on the impacts of plastic production on health, environment, climate, and economics. (See the full schedule below.) Register for our first webinars on May 19 and May 21. Beginning this week, the People [...]

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We are Living on THIS EARTH — How We Survive the Climate Crisis

May 18, 2020

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis From Living on Earth, Air Date: Week of May 15, 2020 The success of the Paris Climate Agreement took the thoughtful cooperation of all nations of the world and coordination by the UN team led by Christiana Figueres. In her new book “The Future We Choose: Surviving [...]

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Attn. WV-DEP, Don’t Allow More Toxins in West Virginia’s Waters

May 17, 2020

Don’t Allow More Toxins in West Virginia’s Waters From the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, 5/11/20 Watch our new video fact sheet on human health criteria by clicking here in this sentence. Right now, in the midst of a public health crisis, the WVDEP is proposing to allow even more dangerous toxins in our water. Act [...]

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