The ORMET Aluminum Plant to Lay Off 700 and Close Down

October 6, 2013

Ormet will close, put 700 out of work, about half from WV From the Article by Dan Gearino, The Columbus Dispatch, October 5, 2013   Aluminum-maker Ormet Corp. is shutting down and laying off most of its 700 workers, a blow to the economy of southeastern Ohio. (About half of these workers lives in the New Martinsville [...]

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Diesel Fuel Exhaust Disrupts Scent Signals for Honeybees

October 5, 2013

Diesel Fuel Exhaust Disrupts Scent Signals for Honeybees Article by Helen Thompson for National Geographic, October 3, 2013 To a bee, no two flowers smell quite the same. When honeybees forage for flowers, they search for, learn, and memorize distinctive floral scents and return to the hive to tell other bees what they’ve found through [...]

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Upcoming WVU Extension Service Programs on Marcellus Shale Resources

October 4, 2013

WVU Extension Programs on Marcellus Shale Resources West Virginia is home of one of the largest Marcellus Shale natural gas deposits on the East Coast. As landowners and community members began asking questions of WVU Extension agents about this topic, we began our work to learn more, gather experts and create the resources to respond. [...]

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Report of Radioactive Wastes from Marcellus Shale Fracking

October 3, 2013

Report of Radioactive Wastes from Marcellus Shale Fracking From the Article of the Binghamton Examiner, www.examiner.com, October 2, 2013 A new study conducted by Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, and colleagues is the first to report substantially higher than normal levels of radioactive waste [...]

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Maryland Hearing on Fracking & Public Health at Deep Creek Lake

October 2, 2013

ACTION ALERT Health Study Discussion Researchers Seek Public Input in Writing Community Meeting at Deep Creek Lake On Saturday, October 5, 2013, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of Garrett College in McHenry, Maryland the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) will hold its second public meeting to receive input regarding [...]

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FrackTracker and WV Host Farms Confer in WV Gas Field

October 1, 2013

FrackTracker and WV Host Farms Confer in WV Gas Field Article by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, September 29, 2013   FrackTracker sent a small group to meet with West Virginia Host Farms the 26th of September.  Most people who study fracking know about FrackTracker through it’s maps which show newly permitted wells [...]

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Explosions & Fire in Marshall County: Local Residents at Risk near Blue Racer Plant

September 30, 2013

Kent Residents: ‘We Evacuated Ourselves’ Neighbor: ‘It Looked Like the Whole Valley Was Exploding’ From the Article by Sarah Harmon, The Wheeling Intelligencer, September 29, 2013 KENT, W.Va. – Delbert Wade heard a pounding at his door. It was just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday, September 21.  Lorri Davisson heard the same pounding just minutes later. [...]

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Numbers Don’t Lie: New Report Reveals the Social Costs of Fracking

September 29, 2013

New Food & Water Watch Report On Social Costs of Fracking From the Article by Katherine Cirullo, September 27, 2013 Over the past several years, the oil and gas industry has muscled its way into rural America under the promise of providing jobs, boosting the economy and moving the nation into energy independence. The industry has [...]

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Project Underway to Identify Deep Well Injection Sites in OH, PA, & WV

September 28, 2013

Seeking Sites for Disposal of Marcellus Fracking Wastewater From the Article by Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, September 23, 2013 Photo in Article: A semi from Pennsylvania unloads wastewater at the Devco No. 1 injection well near Cambridge, Ohio. Scientists at the Batelle Memorial Institute in Columbus are leading a search for sites where companies can pump [...]

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PA Governor Taps Acting Secretaries For PA-DEP and PA-DCNR

September 27, 2013

PA Governor Taps Acting Secretaries For PA-DEP and PA-DCNR From the Article by Katie Colaneri, State Impact NPR, September 20, 2013 Governor Tom Corbett is nominating his acting secretaries to fill vacancies at the state’s top environmental regulation agencies. Christopher Abruzzo has been serving the Department of Environmental Protection since April when then-secretary Michael Krancer left [...]

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