July 26, 2010

Urban Air Pollutants Can Damage IQs before Baby's First Breath

A study in Krakow, Poland, corroborates New York City findings that link children’s lower IQ scores with mothers’ exposure to compounds created by burning fossil fuels

 By Marla Cone, Emily Elert and Environmental Health News

 In a sweltering summer in …

July 25, 2010

Forum Discusses Gas Industry Money Impact on State Politics

Forum discusses gas industry money impact on state politics
By Charles Schillinger (Staff Writer), The Times-Tribune, July 23, 2010

A hundred people gasped in anger and shock as Dimock Twp. resident Craig Sautner raised a milk jug of his brown …

July 25, 2010

Former Oil and Gas Producer Tells NYS to "scrap proposed DEC regulations"…wait for EPA to issue its new guidelines

The Challenges of Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing
James Northrup, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Member News

From Otsego 2000

The regulations on hydrofracking proposed by the DEC were written for existing small vertical New York wells – known in the industry as …

July 23, 2010

1,200 hear Marcellus Shale debate

EPA hearing in Southpointe one of four nationwide
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Concerns about the risk of water contamination and public health problems from Marcellus Shale drilling dominated a sometimes loud U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Southpointe attended …

July 22, 2010

Information From Gas-Drilling Companies Isn’t Coming Easily

Information From Gas-Drilling Companies Isn’t Coming Easily, Congressmen Say
by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, July 20, 2010, 1:55 p.m.

Gas and oil companies have deflected congressional inquiries about whether they are drilling near underground drinking water sources and how they are …

July 17, 2010

Natural Gas "Fracking" Threatens National Water Supply, Human Health

Natural Gas “Fracking” Threatens National Water Supply, Human Health
By Leah Zerbe, Rodale News, July 15th, 2010

RODALE NEWS, WEST TRENTON, NJ—We are at a crossroads. With the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill still with us more …

July 16, 2010

Natural Gas No Quick Fix for U.S. Energy Woes

Food & Water Watch Report Points to Need for Better Federal Regulations; Activists in Delaware River Basin, Colorado and Virginia Fear Risks from Fracking
By Food & Water Watch, Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Washington, D.C.-In the wake of April’s calamitous …

July 16, 2010

Investigation Confirms PA Fracking Well Blowout Was Easily Preventable, Potentially Catastrophic

Investigation Confirms Pennsylvania Fracking Well Blowout Was Easily Preventable, Potentially Catastrophic
By Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u t, Wednesday 14 July 2010

Pennsylvanians are wondering if their state could become the next environmental ground zero after …

July 15, 2010

PITTSBURGH PRIESTS: ECO-JUSTICE & CLEAN WATER

The Association of Pittsburgh Priests

[Excerpt] We commend and pray for our fellow Catholics who are a part of the solution by working with organizations such as Clean Water Action, Duquesne University Center for Environmental Research, Rachael Carson Homestead, Sierra …

July 14, 2010

Not So Fast, Natural Gas: Why Accelerating Risky Drilling Threatens America’s Water

Food and Water Watch

Some energy analysts are predicting that natural gas will be the fuel of the future if advances in drilling technology allow drillers to tap into domestic shale rock formations on a large scale. But because of …

July 11, 2010

Concerns Spread Over Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas

Concerns Spread Over Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas
By JOEL KIRKLAND of ClimateWire, July 9, 2010

PITTSBURGH — Around suppertime on June 3 in Clearfield County, Pa., a geyser of natural gas and sludge began shooting out of a …

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