Cracker Plants and Plastics Production Raises Public Health Issues

February 22, 2017

Chemical Plant Boom Spurred by Fracking Will Bring Smog, Plastic Glut and Risks to Workers’ Health From an Article by Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog News, 2/14/2017 On the heels of the shale gas rush that’s swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel-based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush [...]

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Small Fracking Earthquakes in Western Pennsylvania Confirmed

February 21, 2017

Fracking caused small earthquakes in western Pennsylvania, PA-DEP confirms From an Article by Dennis Owens, ABC News (WHTM – Harrisburg), February 17, 2017 The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection made a big announcement Friday via an online webinar. “The Lawrence County event is properly classified as an induced tectonic seismic event,” droned an unseen scientist. [...]

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Let’s Look for Wisdom on Presidents’ Day (and everyday)

February 20, 2017

George Washington Quotes For Presidents Day This Holiday Was Originally In Honor Of Washington’s Birthday Nearly two and a half centuries ago, George Washington became the first President of the United States. To help commemorate the man behind the chopping of the cherry tree, I’ve collected 13 of the best George Washington quotes for Presidents [...]

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Pipelines Issues with ACP & MVP in our National Forests

February 19, 2017

Atlantic Coast Pipeline — Action to Support our National Forest We need your help to protect one of the wildest, most intact forests in the East. Dominion’s proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cross 21 miles of the George Washington and Monongahela National Forests. Ask the Forest Service to reject Dominion’s efforts to shortcut the [...]

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Letter of Concern to WV-DEP and the WV Governor

February 18, 2017

Open Letter to Gov. Jim Justice and DEP Sec. Austin Caperton TO: Jim Justice & Austin Caperton. From: Tom Bond, Lewis County   How is the air down there in Charleston?  Still clean?  Do you plan to move out into the country near some of the new Marcellus drilling industry?  Maybe near a compressor station [...]

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Attention Citizens: Scott Pruitt Required to Release Emails

February 17, 2017

Senate Confirms Scott Pruitt to Head Environmental Protection Agency 52 – 46 From an Article by Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News, February 17, 2017 The U.S. Senate Friday confirmed Oklahoma attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA in a party-line 52-46 vote. Democrats did all they could to delay the final vote, holding another [...]

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Atmospheric Methane Continues to Increase in Marcellus Region

February 16, 2017

Methane has Increased in Marcellus Shale Region Despite  Dip in Gas Well Installations Media Contact:  Britt Faulstick, Drexel University, February 10, 2017 Drexel researchers have been studying air pollution in the Marcellus Shale regions of Pennsylvania for several years.  Despite a slow down in the number of new natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region [...]

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Zombie Bills are Back in the WV State Legislature

February 15, 2017

Zombie Bills: Bills to Aid Drillers Are Back From an Article by  Julie Archer, WVSORO, February 11, 2017 As we anticipated, some bad bills that aid drillers at the expense of West Virginia landowners — bills that were either soundly defeated or stalled at different points in the legislative process in 2016 — are starting to [...]

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Part 3. WV Residents Will Not Get Protection from Compressor Station Noise & Lights

February 14, 2017

  ‘G-35-D posted on the website Monday, January 30, 2017’ From an Article by Ken Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail, February 11, 2017 During a series of interviews before he left the WV-DEP last month, Randy Huffman talked about his belief that the agency needed to continue to do more to help address the on-the-ground effects of [...]

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Part 2: WV Residents Will Not Get Protection from Compressor Station Noise & Lights

February 13, 2017

‘Better and better and better and better’ From an Article by Ken Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail, February 11, 2017 Commenting in his speech about the state’s natural gas industry, Justice said, “We need to do everything we can to exploit that to make it even better and better and better and better.” The governor also [...]

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