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In Some Pennsylvania Pro-Fracking Corners, Name-calling, False Claims, and Swastika-Laden Images Circulate
In Some Pennsylvania Pro-Fracking Corners, Name-calling, False Claims, and Swastika-Laden Images Circulate Cabot Oil and Gas is a shale drilling company that, according to state regulators, botched its shale gas extraction operations in an area around Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, about a decade ago. Cabot has for years fought liability for locals’ contaminated water supplies and has […]
EPA Decides Not to Regulate Fracking Wastewater as Pennsylvania Study Reveals Recent Spike
EPA Decides Not to Regulate Fracking Wastewater as Pennsylvania Study Reveals Recent Spike On April 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told two environmental groups that it had decided it was “not necessary” to update the federal standards handling toxic waste from oil and gas wells, including the waste produced by fracking. State regulators have repeatedly proved unable to prevent […]
Energy Transfer Uses Workaround to Open Mariner East 2 Pipeline Amid Hazard Worries, Criminal Investigation
Energy Transfer Uses Workaround to Open Mariner East 2 Pipeline Amid Hazard Worries, Criminal Investigation Energy Transfer has begun shipping natural gas liquids through one of the most troubled pipeline projects in Pennsylvania, sparking calls for additional investigations as residents say safety concerns remain unresolved. Natural gas liquids (NGLs) are fossil fuels found in large volumes in […]
Pipeline that Exploded in Pennsylvania Part of Push to Build Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Network
Pipeline that Exploded in Pennsylvania Part of Push to Build Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Network Just before dawn Monday morning, Chuck Belczyk thought a jet had crashed near his home roughly 25 miles outside Pittsburgh – until he heard the sound of hissing gas. “And that’s when it all hit us what was happening,” Belczyk told NPR’s State […]
How We’re Fighting to Save Democracy From Bribery and Gerrymandering, One State at a Time
How We’re Fighting to Save Democracy From Bribery and Gerrymandering, One State at a Time In Pennsylvania, the democratic system isn’t broken. It’s dead. Adam Eichen, Rabbi Michael Pollack, Emmie DiCicco speaking at a March on Harrisburg barnstorming event at the UU Fellowship of Erie, PA. February 19, 2018 Photo Credit: Rhys Baker Political alienation […]
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon pollution in Pennsylvania
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon pollution in Pennsylvania Methane leaks in the state’s oil and gas industry equal 11 coal-fired power plants. FLARING TAKES PLACE AFTER A GAS WELL HAS BEEN DRILLED AND BEFORE IT IS PUT INTO OPERATION. CREDIT: CAROLYN COLE/L.A. TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES The evidence is now […]
Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline
Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensitive environmental areas in the path of its proposed […]
Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster”
Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster” On Tuesday, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania signed a declaration of disaster emergency, after a two-day storm dumped 5-feet of snow. Heavy lake-effect snow set record-setting snowfall totals in the snow belts to the east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. From […]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Launches Fracking Probe After Residents Call for Help
Pennsylvania Attorney General Launches Fracking Probe After Residents Call for Help UPDATED 11/01/17: DEP responded to Public Herald’s questions regarding the Buckwalter complaint investigation. Over the past seven months, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General has received an influx of phone calls from residents alleging that officials at the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have ignored or […]
Pennsylvania Will Run Out Of Cash Tonight, Leaving $860MM Of Bills Unpaid
Pennsylvania Will Run Out Of Cash Tonight, Leaving $860MM Of Bills Unpaid As equity markets spike to all new highs with each passing day, the number of fiscal crises springing up within local and state governments around the country are reaching somewhat alarming levels, even if they’re being completely ignored by investors. As Reuters notes […]
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit For many residents of Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, it’s been nearly a decade since their lives were turned upside down by the arrival of Cabot Oil and Gas, a company whose Marcellus Shale hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) wells were plagued by a […]
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies Two recent studies further call into question the oil and gas industry’s claims of the climate benefits and community benefits of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). One of those studies, published in Environmental Research Letters and titled, “Just fracking: a distributive environmental justice analysis of […]
As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line
As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line After spreading across Pennsylvania, fracking for natural gas has run into government bans in the Delaware River watershed. The basins of the Delaware and nearby Susquehanna River offer a sharp contrast between what happens in places that allow fracking and those that do not. Over the […]
Radioactivity Found in Pennsylvania Creek, Illegal Fracking Waste Dumping Suspected
Radioactivity Found in Pennsylvania Creek, Illegal Fracking Waste Dumping Suspected Recently released testing results in western Pennsylvania, upstream from Pittsburgh, reveal evidence of radioactive contamination in water flowing from an abandoned mine. Experts say that the radioactive materials may have come from illegal dumping of shale fracking wastewater. Regulators had previously found radioactivity levels that exceeded EPA‘s […]
