O.M.G. ~ Crypto Currency Bears Similarities to Ponzi Schemes & Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown

January 30, 2022

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says crypto has ‘disturbing’ parallels with subprime mortgage meltdown Review by Ryan Browne, CNBC Cable News, Date: January 28, 2022 Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has given an ominous warning about the volatile cryptocurrency market, comparing it to the subprime mortgage crisis of the late 2000s. In an opinion piece for [...]

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Financial Questions Loom for Gas-Fired Electricity Generation

January 29, 2022

Rapidly Changing Investment Climate Challenges Planned PJM Gas Plants From a Study by Dennis Wamsted, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), 11/18/21 Gas-fired power plant cancellations and delays signal investor anxiety, changing economics. Financial concerns are likely to affect other PJM gas projects still in the planning phase. A recent decision to cancel [...]

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Mountain Valley Pipeline [MVP] Stopped at Jefferson National Forest by US 4th Circuit Court

January 28, 2022

Fourth Circuit Vacates Two Key MVP Permits to Cross Jefferson National Forest >> From the Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance, ABRA Update #325, January 28, 2022 The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated – for the second time – the approvals granted by the U.S. Forest Service (NFS) and the Bureau of Land Management [...]

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PUBLIC WARNING ~ Radiation Hazards from Drilling & Fracking in the Ohio River Valley

January 27, 2022

Our Toxic Legacy is Even More Toxic Today From the Letter to Editor by Randi Pokladnik, Steubenville Herald Star, January 22, 2022 Recently, I took a drive around the streets surrounding the 4K Industrial Park in Martins Ferry. Part of the industrial park includes buildings that were once part of old Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. The area [...]

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We All Need to Make a Significant Difference in This World

January 26, 2022

We can all make a difference in the world, speaking truth to those listening >>> Being the Last Column of Randi Pokladnik for the Bargain Hunter, January 19, 2022 Seven years ago this month, I started writing columns for the Bargain Hunter. My very first column was about the chemicals in foods. For the past [...]

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CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ARRIVED ~ Yes, In Your Back Yard

January 25, 2022

THINGS TO KNOW ~ Atmospheric CO2 is Making Things Grow Unnaturally & Crypto-mining is Adding More >>> From an Article by Randi Pokladnik, Bargain Hunter, August 1, 2021 Every summer I get a case of poison ivy. We live on a wooded lot and have tried to eradicate most of the plants, but you can [...]

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RECENT REGIONAL N.R.C. REPORTS via Sky Truth

January 24, 2022

Public Attention is Needed to Observe and Report Incidents & Accidents . . . >>> From the Public Interest and Public Action to Protect our Environment To report a release or spill, contact the federal government’s centralized reporting center, the National Response Center (NRC), at 1-800-424-8802. The NRC is staffed 24 hours a day by [...]

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HEALTH IMPACT REDUCTION NEEDED ~ Monitoring & Control of Oil & Gas Well Emissions

January 23, 2022

Stop Fracking Pollution Next to Children, Homes & Schools >>> Appeal of Ranjana Bhandari, Liveable Arlington (Texas), January 20, 2022 Hello to the Concerned Citizens of the United States, My name is Ranjana Bhandari. I founded the group Liveable Arlington 7 years ago to protect children from the health impacts of urban fracking in our [...]

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MORE PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED ~ Proposed ‘Science Facility’ in the Morgantown Industrial Park

January 22, 2022

THE MORGANTOWN INDUSTRIAL PARK SHOULD BE PROTECTED FROM ARBITRARY POLLUTERS >>> From an Analysis by Duane Nichols, Mon Valley Clean Air Coalition, January 18, 2022 The proposed ‘Science Facility’ that is being planned by ‘Marion Energy Partners, LLC would be located in the Morgantown Industrial Park. The justification provided thus far to take up space, [...]

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CHEMICALS & PLASTICS PRODUCTION NOW OUT-OF-BOUNDS ~ Our Earth Cannot Sustain These Activities

January 21, 2022

We Have Breached the Planetary Boundary for Plastics and Other Chemical Pollutants >>> From an Article by Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch.com, January 18, 2022 PHOTO ~ Plastic pollution in Panama, an example of the conditions around the Earth. Humanity is currently releasing more chemical and plastic pollution into the environment than Earth can support. That’s the [...]

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