Ultrafine Particles are Less than 0.1 Microns: UFP’s are Quite Common in our Environment and Very Dangerous

April 17, 2015

Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles (2005) From a Scientific Article by Günter Oberdörster (Dept. of Env. Medicine, Univ. of Rochester), Eva Oberdörster (Dept. of Biology, So. Methodist Univ.) and Jan Oberdörster (Toxicology Dept. at Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC) in 2005 ABSTRACT — Although humans have been exposed to [...]

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Prof. McCawley Speaks Out on Dangers of Ultrafine Dust (4/16/15)

April 16, 2015

WVU Researcher Warns About Toxic Ultrafine Dust in West Virginia From an Article by Glynis Board, WV Public Broadcasting, April 15, 2015 When we hear about the danger of dust exposure, we are usually talking about coal dust underground, or silica dust. But that’s not the only dust that can make people sick. Apparently almost [...]

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Isn’t Brine from Marcellus Shale Fracking a Toxic Substance?

April 15, 2015

Decisions about ‘brine’ toxicity: who makes them, when and how By S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor and Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV The need for this article was brought out by an article forwarded by Debbie Borowiec. The kicker in that one was the statement that the Pennsylvania Department responsible for regulating the use [...]

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Williams Energy Plans More Pipelines While Two Rupture

April 14, 2015

Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Price Tag Is $2.1 Billion Williams Energy pipeline will service 7 million homes from NYC to Georgia From an Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, April 14, 2015 Wheeling, WV – Williams Energy plans to service 7 million homes from New York City to Georgia with about 1.7 billion cubic feet of [...]

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WB Express Pipeline to Cross West Virginia

April 13, 2015

Another Pipeline Sneaks In – WB Express Pipeline of Columbia Gas Transmission From S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV, April 10, 2014 At the April 9 meeting the Upshur County Commission was asked to support still another large bore pipeline. This one is called the WB Express Project, which is being pushed by [...]

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Radioactive Radon Levels Higher in PA Fracking Areas

April 12, 2015

Study says, radon levels increase in homes near Pennsylvania fracking sites From an Article by Michael Walsh, Yahoo News, April 10, 2015 Levels of cancer-causing radon have reportedly been on the rise in Pennsylvania ever since fracking picked up in the state. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say there is [...]

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John Nash, Mathematician, is Awarded the Abel Prize

April 11, 2015

‘Beautiful mind’ John Nash adds Abel Prize to his Economics Nobel Prize Excerpt from an Article by Phillip Ball, Nature Journal, March 25, 2015 Although some consider the Abel Prize to be the ‘Nobel of mathematics’, its winners are hardly ever household names. But this year’s prize, announced on March 25th, includes a notable exception: [...]

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2015 Potential Gas Committee Reports Record-High Natural Gas Resources

April 10, 2015

United States gas resource base reaches a record 2,515 trillion cublc feet including shale gas From an Article by Nick Snow, Oil & Gas Journal (PennWell Group), April 8, 2015 Unconventional natural gas production is proving to be more durable than many people expected, officials said as the Potential Gas Committee released its 2014 yearend [...]

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Arctic Permafrost: Another Huge Climate Change Threat

April 9, 2015

The Shocking Climate Threat Nobody’s Even Talking About: Permafrost From an Article by Chris Mooney, Washington Post, April 6, 2015 When we think about the Arctic in a warming world, we tend to think about sharp declines in sea ice and — that powerful symbol — the polar bear. But that’s far from the only [...]

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Insufficient Data and Loose Regulations Worsen Fracking’s Impact, Studies Find

April 8, 2015

‘Marcellus shale waste is the elephant in the room that gas operators and regulators alike ignore,’ says environmentalist From an Article by Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams Blog, April 3, 2015 A slew of studies released this week, each examining different aspects of the fossil fuel extraction method known as ‘fracking,’ provide new evidence of problems [...]

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