Colorado Residents Becoming Upset Over Dangerous Drilling & Fracking

April 9, 2018

Standing against fracking in Boulder County open spaces is urgent From an Article by Rebecca Dickson, Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, April 7, 2018 Fracking on Boulder County open space could begin within the year. If you’re reading this article, you’re likely aware of this threat because the Camera has been covering it. But many Boulder [...]

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Climate, Disease and the Fate of the Roman Empire

April 8, 2018

Pathogens and the Anthropocene: Germs, Genes, Geography, Part 1 From an Article by Kyle Harper, Inhabiting the Anthropocene, October 18, 2017 >>> Professor Kyle Harper’s recent book, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, is now available from Princeton University Press. This blog post expands from Harper’s work on the [...]

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Cornell’s Spring Environmental Humanities Lectures Announced

April 7, 2018

Spring Environmental Humanities Lecture Series begins April 12 Article by Linda B. Glaser, Cornell Chronicle, April 3, 2018 Scholars in the new interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities argue that climate change, water security, environmental justice and other such challenges can’t be solved purely by economic and scientific solutions: Human culture is implicated in ecological conditions. [...]

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Comprehensive Information Source on Major New WV Gas Pipelines

April 6, 2018

WVDEP Launches Webpage Dedicated to Helping Citizens Learn About Pipeline Projects From the WV-DEP Webpage, Pipeline Projects, April 2, 2018 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (April 2, 2018) – The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) has launched an easy to use webpage designed to help citizens learn more about five major proposed or under construction natural [...]

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Business Leaders Promote Ethane Storage for Plastics Plants in Ohio Valley

April 5, 2018

Two crackers, one valley could yield big dividends, business leaders say From an Article by Linda Harris, State Journal, April 2, 2018 WHEELING — If one ethane cracker within an 80-mile radius is good, Mountaineer NGL President David Hooker says having two would make the Upper Ohio Valley a business magnet. But that all depends [...]

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Community Organizing Summit by the Appalachian Gas Working Group

April 4, 2018

This Weekend at Jackson’s Mill: Community Organizing Summit hosted by the Appalachian Gas Working Group >>> Media Advisory from the Appalachian Gas Working Group, April 4, 2018 Contacts: Angie Rosser, West Virginia Rivers Coalition, 304-437-1274, arosser@wvrivers.org Justin Raines, West Virginia Sierra Club, 304-532-3520, justinraineswv@gmail.com Natalie Thompson, OVEC-Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, 304-222-2208, natalie@ohvec.org What: Community Organizing [...]

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Co-Tenancy is Now Law in West Virginia, More Gas Production

April 3, 2018

West Virginia’s Milestone Co-Tenancy Legislation Expected to Have Varying Impacts From an Article by Jamison Conklin, Natural Gas Intelligence, April 2, 2018 The co-tenancy legislation that passed during this year’s regular session in West Virginia is generally expected to aid natural gas development, but exactly how significant its impact will be remains unclear. A long-awaited [...]

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Ban Fracking in the Delaware River Basin (MD, NY, NJ, PA, DE)

April 2, 2018

Time For a Full Fracking Ban in the Delaware River Basin From an Article by Rob Friedman, Natural Resources Defense Council, March 30, 2018 Today marks the conclusion of a four-month long comment period on proposed fracking regulations in the Delaware River Basin. The draft regs were put forward by the Delaware River Basin Commission [...]

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Tunnel Drilling Under the Blue Ridge Parkway is Asking for Trouble

April 1, 2018

Subject: Dominion’s Assault on the Blue Ridge Mountains From: Rick Webb, Allegheny—Blue Ridge Alliance, March 31, 2018 As reported previously, aerial photographs of apparent unauthorized construction work where Dominion Energy proposes to drill through the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline were obtained during recent surveillance flights conducted by the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance [...]

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EXXON Denial of Climate Change Not Credible

March 31, 2018

Court Tosses Exxon’s ‘Implausible’ Lawsuit Seeking to Stop Climate Probe From an Article by Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch.com, March 30, 2018 A federal judge on Thursday threw out Exxon Mobil’s lawsuit that sought to derail New York and Massachusetts’ probe into whether the oil giant misled investors and the public about its knowledge of climate change. [...]

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