Does Your Governor Deny Climate Change? Seems to Me

July 6, 2014

Is Your Governor a Climate Denier? From an Article by EcoWatch, July 2, 2014 Climate change is a contentious topic in the U.S. and around the world, especially since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its plan to impose the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. While the general consensus from the [...]

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Aggressive Tactics on the Western PA Fracking Front

July 5, 2014

A Pennsylvania gas company offers residents cash to buy protection from any claims of harm From an Article by Naveena Sadasivam, ProPublica, July 2, 2014 For the last eight years, Pennsylvania has been riding the natural gas boom, with companies drilling and fracking thousands of wells across the state. And in a little corner of [...]

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Cove Point Rally on July 13th on National Mall in DC

July 4, 2014

Rally on July 13th at National Mall to Protest Cove Point LNG Export Terminal RE: July 13th Cove Point Rally in Washington, DC In just 10 days, people from across the Mid-Atlantic will be marching through the streets of Washington, DC to stop fracked gas exports at Cove Point. As my friend Bill McKibben said [...]

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Leasing Plan Proposed for Mineral Owners at Public Meeting

July 3, 2014

Public Meeting on Gas Property Leases in Weston, WV Review & Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer and Retired Chemistry Professor, Jane Lew, Lewis County, WV, July 2, 2014 On Tuesday, July 1, 2014, Tim Greene and Land and Mineral Management of Appalachia (LMMA) held a meeting in Weston to inform Lewis County residents [...]

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Letter of Dr. Paulson to PA-DEP on Fracking Impacts on Children

July 2, 2014

From the Letter of June 30, 2014 to: E. Christopher Abruzzo, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street. Harrisburg, PA 17101 I am writing in regard to decisions that your office will be making about unconventional natural gas extraction (UGE). Some of these decisions may relate specifically to [...]

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NY Supreme Court OK’s Town Fracking Bans

July 1, 2014

Court Rules That New York Towns Can Ban Fracking From an Article by Ecowatch, June 30, 2014 In a precedent-setting case decided today by the New York Court of Appeals, local communities have triumphed over the fracking industry. The court ruled that the towns of Dryden and Middlefield can use local zoning laws to ban [...]

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Twenty Trucks Burn & Major Fish Kill at Well Pad in the Ohio Valley

June 30, 2014

Fish kill in eastern Ohio (may be) linked to fire at fracking well From an Article by Jim Woods, Columbus Dispatch, June 30, 2014 The State of Ohio is investigating a fish kill in an eastern Ohio creek near where a fire occurred at a shale-well fracking site on Saturday. The Ohio Department of Natural [...]

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Research Program at WVU on Shale Drilling Impacts

June 29, 2014

WVU Researchers Focus on Reducing Shale Drilling Risks From an Article by David Bradley, NGI Shale Daily, June 27, 2014 A series of precautions, some of which are already being used, can help reduce environmental and health risks associated with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), according to a study by researchers at West Virginia [...]

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Special Issue of Science: “The gas surge”

June 28, 2014

SCIENCE: Special Issue: Volume 344 no. 6191 pp. 1464-1467 From an Introduction by David Malakoff, SCIENCE, June 27, 2014 702—PERCENT INCREASE IN U.S. SHALE GAS PRODUCTION SINCE 2007 40—PERCENT SHALE GAS SHARE OF TOTAL U.S. PRODUCTION 47—PERCENT INCREASE IN U.S. ELECTRICITY GENERATED USING NATURAL GAS SINCE 2005 15,000,000—LITERS OF WATER AND CHEMICALS PUMPED INTO A [...]

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Critical Issues for Marcellus Fracking Industry not Environmental

June 27, 2014

ICF: US needs ethane export capacity to sustain shale gas boom From an Article by Rachael Seeley, Oil & Gas Journal, June 25, 2014 Houston, TX — Greater investment in infrastructure is needed to ensure that rising NGL production in the US can reach international markets. Without it, a glut will form, placing downward pressure [...]

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