Many are Standing Up Against Fracking & Climate Change

March 26, 2016

Opponents question the climate benefits and morality of natural gas From an Article by Marie Cusick, StateImpact PA, March 21, 2016 Rev. Dr. Leah Schade is with the Lutheran Church in Lewisburg, PA. She wore a shirt that read, “Where would Jesus frack?” An interfaith group of religious organizations held a rally at the state [...]

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RE: Climate Change — “Coming Clean with Fossil Fuels”

March 25, 2016

Fossil Fuels Need to be Grounded! ASAP! From the Blog of Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club USA, March 22, 2016 Hard to believe it’s only 10 months since I had to write this in the aftermath of a really bad decision from the Obama administration: Why is it so hard for so many of [...]

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Coal and Oil and Natural Gas have to be Left in the Ground

March 24, 2016

Benign’ Fossil Fuels? McKibben Says There’s No Such Thing From an Article by Deidre Fulton, Common Dreams, March 23, 2016 With a new piece in The Nation, environmental leader Bill McKibben upends widely held assumptions not just about President Barack Obama’s climate legacy, but about the so-called “natural gas revolution” that was once considered a [...]

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Natural Gas Power Plants in Planning for Pennsylvania

March 23, 2016

Natural gas power plant proposed for former Nemacolin Mine property From an Article by Bob Niedbala, Washington PA Observer Reporter, March 22, 2016 A New York company wants to build a 536-megawatt, natural gas-fired power plant on the property of the former Nemacolin mine in Cumberland Township of Greene County. The plant, which will be [...]

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Fracking Regulations and Environmental Protection are Inadequte

March 22, 2016

State must fend for itself against fracking hazards Letter to Editor, Morgantown Dominion Post, March 21, 2016 Studies and investigative reports indicate that horizontal hydro-fracking poses serious and unavoidable threats to our health and environment. Due largely to these findings, the process is now prohibited in New York state, Maryland, Vermont, parts of Canada and [...]

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BXE Seeks Attention of FERC on Fossil Fuel Issues

March 21, 2016

Activist Group Plans ‘Rebellion Against FERC’ For Fossil Fuel Work From an Article by Sean Sullivan, S & P Global News, March 19, 2016 Above Photo: A crowd gathered in the cold near Wall Street on Friday to call for New York’s divestment from fossil fuels. When it comes to stopping the permitting of natural [...]

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Fossil Fuels vs. Renewable Energy Development in West Virginia

March 20, 2016

Renewable energy critical for state’s future Letter to Editor, Dan Conant, Charleston Gazette Mail, March 16, 2016 The recent column in the Daily Mail opinion page published (Isaac Orr, Millennials misguided on energy, Feb. 15) was misinformed about the cost of renewable energy and its effect on West Virginia. Mr. Orr’s op-ed relies on an [...]

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Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants Under Serious Consideration

March 19, 2016

Tell VA-DEQ: NO To Dominion’s Giant Gas-Fired Power Plant From the Sierra Club of Virginia, March 18, 2016 In 2015, Dominion Resources Inc. announced plans to build what could become the state’s biggest fracked gas plant — the proposed $1.3 billion, 1600-megawatt Greensville County gas plant in Southside Virginia. This plant is yet another project [...]

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Water Issues are Created by the Activities of the Oil & Gas Industry

March 18, 2016

Water Quality Fact Sheet from WVU Extenstion Service This information is about a new fact sheet co-authored by Georgette Plaugher and Greg Hamons (Extension Agent-Pocahontas County) from the WVU Extension Service Oil and Gas Team.    This fact sheet is the first in a planned 3 part series regarding inspecting, protecting, managing and testing private [...]

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Carbon Dioxide Continues to Accumulate in the Atmosphere, with some Variability

March 17, 2016

Unprecedented Spike in CO2 Levels in 2015 From an Article by Bobby Magill, Climate Central News, March 10, 2015 The annual growth rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose more in 2015 than scientists have ever seen in a single year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. It was the fourth year [...]

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