FRS to Upgrade Treatment and Pay Penalties after Discharge Violations at Western Penna. Wastewater Facilities

May 25, 2013

U.S. EPA From the U.S. EPA, Region III, Philadelphia, PA – May 22, 2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a Clean Water Act settlement with Fluid Recovery Services, LLC (FRS), which operates three wastewater treatment plants in western Pennsylvania. The settlement resolves discharge permit violations associated with the treatment of wastewater generated from oil [...]

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Book Review: “Downriver” — Fracking and Consumerism Eroding Rural Communities

May 24, 2013

Book Review: “Downriver” by K. G. Waite By Rev. Leah D. Schade, EcoWatch, May 20, 2013 Waite’s e-book, Downriver, is a series of six vignettes that give us brief yet compelling glimpses of life in America moving between rural and suburban landscapes and communities. I have lived in both places and found myself nodding in [...]

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Questions and Answers: How to Energize the State of West Virginia?

May 23, 2013

Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Jane Lew, Lewis County, WV America’s Natural Gas Alliance and Energize WV with Natural Gas held another of its Town Hall information meetings in Buckhannon Wednesday evening, May 22. The presentation and room decoration were similar to a one I attended at Bridgeport a year or so ago, [...]

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Additional Research on the Impacts of Fracking on Biodiversity Needed

May 22, 2013

Open Letter From the Society for Conservation Biology, February 28, 2013 The Society for Conservation Biology sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and Department of Interior requesting that those three agencies conduct research on the biodiversity-related impacts of unconventional natural gas exploration involving hydraulic fracturing technology as part of a [...]

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US DOE Approves Second Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal

May 21, 2013

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Tanker New Terminal: Freeport LNG, Texas Article by Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog, EcoWatch, May 18, 2013 Friday is the proverbial “take out the trash day” for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this last Friday was no different.  In that vein, this past Friday the Department of Energy [...]

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Modern Natural Gas Development and Harm to Health

May 20, 2013

The Need for Proactive Public Health Policies From the Review Article by Madelon L. Finkel, Jake Hays, and Adam Law, Weill Cornell Medical College and Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE). A modern form of natural gas development has become a global “game changer” in the quest for energy. Natural gas, abundant around [...]

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US Interior Department Weakens Fracking Rules

May 19, 2013

Article from EcoWatch, May 16, 2013 The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial oil and gas development technique—in which drillers blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to force oil and gas [...]

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Fracking Truck(s) Set Off Radiation Alarm At Landfill in SW Penna.

May 18, 2013

From an Article of Forbes.com, April 24, 2013 A truck carrying drill cuttings from a hydraulic fracturing pad in the Marcellus Shale was rejected by a Pennsylvania landfill near the end of April after it set off a radiation alarm. The truck was emitting gamma radiation from radium 226 at almost ten times the level [...]

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Scientists Comment on Global Climate Change

May 17, 2013

Climate Change Conversations(1) Commentary from Officials of the American Chemical Society , Science Magazine, April 5, 2013 Submitted by S. Thomas Bond, Professor of Chemistry (Retired), Lewis County, WV. “Climate change affects everyone, so everyone should understand why the climate is changing and what it means to them, their children, and generations to follow,” they [...]

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WV Public Radio: Saving Money with Environmental Regulations

May 16, 2013

Prof. Joe Aldy “Living on Earth,”  PRI, Air Date: May 13, 2013 Critics argue that EPA regulation is costly to business and the US economy. But a new report from the Office of Management & Budget shows that the financial benefits of pollution regulation outweigh the costs ten-fold. Harvard Professor Joe Aldy talks with “Living on [...]

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