Convincing Evidence for Climate Change at Walden Pond

July 23, 2016

Planet Earth — Walden’s Climate Change 1852 to 2015 From an Article by Rachel Hartigan Shea, National Geographic Magazine, July 2016 “I am on the alert for the first signs of spring,” wrote Henry David Thoreau.  The author of the book Walden; Life in the Woods recorded first flowering times from 1852 to 1858 for [...]

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Opportunities for West Virginia within the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

July 22, 2016

Expanding Economic Opportunities for WV under the Clean Power Plan News Report from Ken Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette Mail, July 21, 2016 There’s a new report out from Downstream Strategies and the WVU College of Law’s Center for Energy and Sustainable Development that takes a look at the opportunities that the Clean Power Plan could create [...]

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Study of Toxic Compounds from Marcellus Drilling at WVU

July 21, 2016

WVU researchers discover nearby Marcellus shale process safer than others From an Article by Sunshine Wiles, WAJR News, July 20, 2016 Morgantown, WV — WVU researchers have studied waste from two hydraulic fracturing wells near Morgantown. The findings were shared Wednesday at the Appalachian Basin Technology Workshop in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. “When you drill a Marcellus [...]

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Anti-Fracking Groups to March at DNC, Given New Asthma Links

July 20, 2016

Bolstered by New Proof of Asthma Link, Anti-Fracking Groups Plan March at DNC From an Article by Nika Knight, Common Dreams, July 19, 2016 Summary — Our country’s leaders ‘must take a hard look at the data, acknowledge the harms of drilling and fracking, and stop it before other people become ill’ Researchers from Johns [...]

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The Fracking Industry Should Not Hide Health Information from the Public

July 19, 2016

What Makes Public Disclosure Effective? From an Article by Miron Avidan, Dror Etzion and Joel Gehman, Huffington Post, July 1, 2016 Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a technology employed in the production of oil and gas from unconventional shale formations. Over the last decade, tens of thousands of fracking wells have been drilled worldwide. Fracking often [...]

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One Book the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to Read

July 18, 2016

ISSUES: Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy & the Environment From an Article by Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch.com, June 7, 2016 My new book, Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment will be released this week and I want to tell you why I wrote it. In the 1990s, I worked on a project [...]

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Fossil Fuels are Impacting our Global Life

July 17, 2016

Hooked! The Unyielding Grip of Fossil Fuels on Global Life From an Article by Michael Klare, Common Dream (TomDispatch), July 14, 2016 Here’s the good news: wind power, solar power, and other renewable forms of energy are expanding far more quickly than anyone expected, ensuring that these systems will provide an ever-increasing share of our [...]

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Massive Fracking Explosion in New Mexico, 36 Oil Storage Tanks Catch Fire

July 16, 2016

Fracking Leaks, Vents, Flares, Fires and Explosions Continue Across United States From an Article by Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch.com, July13, 2016 This week—as thousands of Americans urge awareness to the destruction caused by oil bomb trains—an oil field in San Juan County, New Mexico erupted in flames Monday night, highlighting the continued and increasing dangers of [...]

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Plastics & Microplastic Particles from Marcellus Shale Resources

July 15, 2016

Plastics & Microplastic Particles from Marcellus Shale Resources Article by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV   The unnatural world of today’s humans, discussed in my last article, involves use of starting materials which are degraded so they can not be reused.  These include both inorganic and organic materials.  [...]

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Core of US Senators Expose “Web of Denial”

July 14, 2016

Some 19 US Senators Expose ‘Web of Denial’ Blocking Action on Climate Change From an Article by Brendan DeMelle, The DeSmog Blog, July 12, 2016 Nineteen U.S. Senators who understand the need to clear the PR pollution that continues to block overdue climate policy spoke out on the Senate floor Monday in support of the [...]

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