US EPA Has Been Crippled by Donald Trump & Republicans

April 5, 2019

“If I were still working at the EPA, I would resign” says Bernard Goldstein Opinion Editorial by Bernard D. Goldstein, Washington Post, April 2, 2019 NOTE: Bernard D. Goldstein was chairman of the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the EPA assistant administrator for research and development under President Reagan from 1983 to 1985. [...]

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Comment Now on the WB XPress Pipeline in Eastern West Virginia

April 4, 2019

Hold WB XPress Pipeline Accountable for Water Quality Violations – Comment by 4/13 From the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, April 2, 2019 PHOTO: Failed sediment controls on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River. Photo by WVDEP. Another pipeline has been cited for water quality violations. The WB XPress Pipeline, a [...]

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Protest “Marcellus Manufacturing Conference” in Morgantown on 4/9/2019

April 3, 2019

News Conference and Protest Pickets Set for April 9, 2019 From Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC), www.OHVEC.org Details — The WV Manufacturers Association is hosting the Marcellus Manufacturing Conference at the Marriott at Waterfront Place/Morgantown Event Center. The conference will promote the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub/petrochemical complex, which would mean a huge increase of [...]

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Coal-Fired Electric Power Plants Being Replaced by Wind & Solar Now!!!

April 2, 2019

New Wind and Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Existing Coal in Much of the U.S., Analysis Finds From an Article by Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News, March 25, 2019 Nearly three-fourths of the country’s coal-fired power plants already cost more to operate than if wind and solar capacity were built in the same areas to [...]

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Gov. Jay Inslee (Washington) is No April Fool on Climate Change

April 1, 2019

Jay Inslee, Climate Candidate and Eco-Dude on the Campaign Trail From an Article by Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, April 1, 2019 Issue When the Washington governor rubbed elbows with students during a climate strike at Columbia University, he avoided the Dianne Feinstein trap. The last Friday of winter was unseasonably warm, and Naomi Hollard, [...]

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What About All the POLLUTION from the Marcellus Cracker Industry!

March 31, 2019

A Fracking-Driven Industrial Boom Renews Pollution Concerns in Pittsburgh From an Article by Nick Cunningham, Yale 360 Environmental News, 3/21/2019 Once known as the Steel City, Pittsburgh is shedding its polluted past and embracing a rebirth built on health care, education, and technology. But the region’s surging fracking industry is attracting a $6 billion ethane [...]

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The Governor of Virginia Should Learn From the Past

March 30, 2019

As he talks equity, Gov. Northam continues to ignore Union Hill From a Speech by Dawone Robinson, Virginia Mercury, March 28, 2019 PHOTO: A sign on State Route 663 near Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham County, one of several in the area opposed to Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In the weeks since Gov. [...]

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Cancer Cases in Southwestern Pennsylvania Raising Important Questions With Few Answers

March 29, 2019

CDC, state officials investigating multiple cases of rare cancer in southwestern Pa. From an Article by David Templeton & Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 28, 2019 Many in the Canon-McMillan School District first learned about Ewing sarcoma, a rare childhood bone cancer, when Luke Blanock of the village of Cecil was diagnosed on Dec. 5, [...]

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Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) Now Represents “Risk Upon Risk”

March 28, 2019

New Study Details the Increasing Risks of the ACP “The ACP is facing a triple threat,” so concludes a new study released March 25 by Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth. “Atlantic Coast Pipeline – Risk Upon Risk” cites three principal threats to the viability of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: 1) extensive legal [...]

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Attorney General of Pennsylvania Using Grand Jury to Investigate Shale Drilling Activities

March 27, 2019

KDKA Investigates: State Grand Jury Probing Shale Gas Industry From an Article of KDKA Broadcasting, Pittsburgh, March 25, 2019 PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Marcellus Shale drilling industry has had a positive economic impact on the region, but for some people who live near gas well sites, their calm lives have been turned upside down. Back [...]

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