Republicans Favor a Drilling & Fracking ‘Free-for-All’ in our National Parks

February 2, 2017

They Want to Disturb our National Treasures Dear Friends of the Environment –   February 1, 2017 Donald Trump’s Republican Congress wants our National Parks to become a drilling and fracking free-for-all. House Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow oil and gas drilling in more than 40 National Parks — Grand Teton National Park, [...]

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CREDO says: Deny the ‘Denier’ Scott Pruitt at EPA

February 1, 2017

No Climate Change Deniers at EPA, Please! Dear Friends of the Environment: Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s nominee for Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is literally one of the last people on Earth who should be put in charge of protecting the environment. He’s a radical climate-change denier who has repeatedly sued the EPA to block the [...]

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WV-DEP Names Edward Maguire II as New Environmental Advocate

January 31, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, WV Department of Environmental Protection, January 31, 2017 Edward Maguire II Named WV-DEP Environmental Advocate CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) Cabinet Secretary Austin Caperton today announced that Edward Maguire II will serve as the agency’s Environmental Advocate. He begins work on February 1st. Since 1990, Maguire has [...]

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New WV-DEP Secretary Austin Caperton Fires the WV Environmental Advocate

January 30, 2017

New secretary fires WVDEP environmental advocate Wendy Radcliff From an Article by Ken Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail, January 27, 2017 West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Austin Caperton on Friday fired Wendy Radcliff, the leader of the DEP’s Office of Environmental Advocate. The move immediately drew strong criticism from West Virginia citizen groups and [...]

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Coal Baron to Head WV Dept. of Environmental Protection

January 30, 2017

Coal exec Austin Caperton, cousin of former Gov. Gaston Caperton, to oversee environmental agency From an Article by Brad McElhinny, WV MetroNews, January 13, 2017 Charleston, WV — Austin Caperton, a longtime coal executive and cousin of former Gov. Gaston Caperton, has been named the new secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection in Jim [...]

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Fine & Ultra-fine Particles Affect our Body and Brain

January 29, 2017

The Polluted Brain is Under Intense Study From an Article by Emily Underwood, Science Magazine, January 26, 2017 Los Angeles, CA—In a barbed wire–enclosed parking lot 100 meters downwind of the Route 110 freeway, an aluminum hose sticks out of a white trailer, its nozzle aimed at an overpass. Every minute, the hose sucks up [...]

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Renewable Energy Provides Far More Jobs for the Future

January 28, 2017

The jobs fraud interferes with planning for the future Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV We hear a lot about living in the “post-truth era,” when most large media are owned by six corporations which are primarily interested in maintaining a common line in the news, determined [...]

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Climate Change Conference at Centers for Disease Control Resurrected

January 27, 2017

CDC’s canceled climate change conference is back on — thanks to Al Gore From an Article by Brady Dennis, Washington Post, January 26, 2017 PHOTO: A view of the Los Angeles skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in 2015. It turns out there will be a conference in Atlanta next month (2/16/17) about climate [...]

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Ethane Cracker Chemical Plants Underway in Louisiana, Texas, and Pennsylvania

January 26, 2017

Year 2017 to bring peak in first wave of US ethane cracker construction From the Editors, Petroleum World, January 20, 2017 New Orleans — Two thousand and seventeen will not only mark the peak of the first wave of U.S. ethane cracker construction, but will also be the year in which decisions are made on [...]

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Trump Blocks Contracts & Communications at US-EPA & Agriculture

January 25, 2017

Trump admin orders EPA contract freeze and media blackout From Michael Biesecker and John Flesher | AP, Washington Post, January 24, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants, part of a broader communications clampdown within the executive [...]

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