Part 2. Consider our World with Surface Heat Going Higher & Higher

September 4, 2018

Climate Change is Here, it’s Real and Strong and Getting Worse, Impacting All of Us Essay by S. Tom Bond, Lewis County, WV, September 4, 2018 What to eat on a hungry planet Another extremely important result of the warming of the world is it’s effect on food. Take wheat, perhaps the most important food [...]

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Labor Day is a Fitting Tribute to Mother Jones, et al.

September 3, 2018

Labor Day — Initiated in 1894 Honors the American Labor Movement “Labor Day recognizes the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, laws, and well-being of the country.” Source: Wikipedia on the World Wide Web, September 3, 2018 Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born [...]

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Mother Jones Insisted on Respect for Labor and the Environment

September 3, 2018

The Amount of Toxic Wastewater Produced by Fracking is Unbelievable From an Article by Alexander C. Kaufman, Mother Jones Magazine, August 17, 2018 Fracking companies used 770 percent more water per well in 2016 than in 2011 across all the United States’ major gas- and oil-producing regions, according to a new study. The number of [...]

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Fracking Causes Increased Risks of Asthma, Birth Defects and Cancer

September 2, 2018

‘The Harms of Fracking’: New Report Details Increased Risks of Asthma, Birth Defects and Cancer From an Article by Justin Nobel, Rolling Stone Magazine, March 13, 2018 Photo: Flares burning at fracking industry site on federal land near Counselor, New Mexico, where environmental groups and indigenous people are fighting back against the expansion of the [...]

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VA Governor Ignores Impact of Natural Gas Pipelines on Communities

September 1, 2018

In Virginia, governor and appointees at odds over gas pipelines From an Article by Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, August 28, 2018 Photo: The Transco Pipeline cuts through the forests of Buckingham County and crosses Route 56 in the foreground. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would pass through Buckingham County and connect to this pipeline. A [...]

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Part 1. Consider our World with Surface Heat Going Higher & Higher

August 31, 2018

Discomfort and Death Must be Understood as Gradual but Certain “The Earth is Under Fire” Series by S. Tom Bond, Lewis County, West Virginia An increasing portion of humanity lives in cities, and they are the hottest place to live in warm weather. The concrete, the asphalt and the absence of vegetation adding cooling moisture [...]

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Opposition Mounts to the ACP Pipeline in Robeson County, NC

August 30, 2018

Help Robie Goins Fight the ACP Pipeline in North Carolina Fundraiser by Greg Yost : “Help Robie Goins Fight A Pipeline” Brothers Robie and Dwayne Goins of Robeson County are members of the Lumbee Tribe and live in Prospect, NC, a majority Native American community. Dwayne lives adjacent to a site where Atlantic Coast Pipeline, [...]

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“SHALE PLAY” — Poems & Photos from the Fracking Fields

August 29, 2018

New Book ‘Shale Play’ Featured in Public Program at Penn State Fayette on 9/5/18 Fayette’s Coal and Coke Heritage Center to host book launch on September 5th for ‘Shale Play’ which depicts life in the Marcellus Shale region through stories, images in new book. LEMONT FURNACE, Pa. — The Coal and Coke Heritage Center at [...]

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Construction Continues on Shell’s Ethane Cracker Complex

August 28, 2018

Equipment for the Shell cracker plant travels on the Ohio River From an Article by Shelley Hanson, Weirton Daily Times, August 26, 2018 Photo: Pieces of the ethane cracker plant being built in Monaca, Pa., made their way up the Ohio River near Shadyside on Thursday evening. MARTINS FERRY — Motorists who travel along Ohio [...]

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Climate Change Crisis is Here; Unprecedented Action is Needed

August 27, 2018

‘We Are Climbing Rapidly Out of Humankind’s Safe Zone’: New Report Warns Dire Climate Warnings Not Dire Enough From an Article by Jon Queally, Common Dreams, August 20, 2018 “Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late [...]

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