Trump’s Attacks on the Earth Continue, Now to Destroy NASA Like EPA

April 19, 2018

After failure to launch, Republican senator switches vote to save Trump’s NASA nominee By Ted Barrett and Daniella Diaz, CNN Report, April 18, 2018 (CNN) — The Senate deadlocked 49-49 for about an hour Wednesday on a vote to break a filibuster of Rep. James Bridenstine, R-Oklahoma, to be the next NASA administrator until Sen. [...]

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The Big Oil & Gas Companies Negligent on Climate Change

April 18, 2018

LOE: Making Big Oil Companies Pay for Climate Disruption STEVE CURWOOD: From Public Radio International, this is “Living on Earth.” CURWOOD: I’m Steve Curwood. Fossil fuel companies are increasingly under legal attack for selling a product that damages the climate. The science that connects what the defendants did to what the cities and counties are [...]

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DANGER: Earth May Warm by 2 Celsius Degrees in the Coming Decade

April 17, 2018

World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years, Due to Fracking From an Article by Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, April 11, 2018 In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than [...]

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The New Mail: Letters on Scott Pruitt at EPA

April 16, 2018

Letters on Margaret Talbot’s article about Scott Pruitt and the US Environmental Protection Agency. From The New Yorker Magazine, April 16, 2018 Issue, Page 5. TITLE: Pruitt vs. the E.P.A. Margaret Talbot’s article about Scott Pruitt paints a scathing picture of his assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (“Dirty Politics,” April 2nd). I was the [...]

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Promoting Development, Local Chambers of Commerce Insensitive to Environment

April 15, 2018

“Tearing down the walls” for economic development Editorial by John Miller (Executive Editor), WV News, April 13, 2018 Since its inception four years ago, we’ve touted the Bridges Without Boundaries Business Summit, which brings together members of four area chambers of commerce: Harrison, Marion, Monongalia and Preston, counties in WV. The focus of the summit [...]

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Can PA Townships Control Drilling & Fracking via Zoning?

April 14, 2018

Penn Township Fracking Dispute Heads to Court in Westmoreland County, PA From an Article by Reid Frazier, Allegheny Front, April 10, 2018 A dispute over a local law that opens up much of a Pittsburgh suburb to oil and gas drilling has made it to a Westmoreland County courtroom. The citizens group ProtectPT is challenging [...]

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The Effect$ of Climate Change are Extensive and Profound, Now & Later

April 13, 2018

What we face as the climate changes Essay by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV Rising ocean level causes migration. There are many reasons areas just above sea level are densely inhabited, ports are there, broad expanses of tillable or easily developed land are there, and close contact with [...]

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Does living near an oil and gas well increase your risk of cancer?

April 12, 2018

A new Colorado study says yes, increased cancer risk exists! State Health Department said more research needed to confirm! From an Article by John Ingold, Denver Post, April 9, 2018 A new study led by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health concludes that the air quality around oil and gas wells places those [...]

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Wastewater Injection Linked to Earthquakes in Oklahoma, etc.

April 11, 2018

Oklahoma orders cut in water injection after earthquakes From Oklahoma City, Associated Press, April 7, 2018 Sandstone bricks from the historic Pawnee County Bank litter the sidewalk after an early morning earthquake in Pawnee, Oka., on Sept. 3, 2016. COVINGTON, Okla. — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has directed a wastewater disposal well to reduce its [...]

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ACP Pipeline Questioned on Environmental Justice

April 10, 2018

Environmental Justice Concerns and the Proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline Route in North Carolina Research Triangle Institute, Report ISSN 2378-7813, March 2018 Authors: Sarah Wraight, Julia Hofmann, Justine Allpress, and Brooks Depro ABSTRACT— This report describes publicly available data sets and quantitative analysis that local communities can use to evaluate environmental justice concerns associated with pipeline [...]

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