June 29, 2020

PA Attorney General Releases Scathing Grand Jury Report on Fracking Industry, State Regulators

Report outlines health and safety issues caused by fracking and states PA DEP “repeatedly failed to exercise their duties and responsibilities.”
By Frank Kummer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 2020

Read the press release from the Attorney General’s office
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March 30, 2020

PA Governor Wolf Vetoes Natural Gas Tax-Break Bill

Proponents: Economic impact of new coronavirus pandemic should boost efforts to override veto.
By Susan Phillips, StateImpact PA, March 27, 2020

For background on HB 1100 read Petrochemicals in PA: What You Need to Know by the NRDC.
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November 13, 2019

PA Wants to Allow Dumping of Toxic Drilling Waste on an Unpaved Road Near You


Published this year by PennState Institute of Energy and Environment this map shows all the unpaved roads in Pennsylvania. You can zoom way in.

A multitude of anti-environment, pro-oil and gas industry bills are moving through the PA legislature. One …

September 24, 2019

PA Oil & Gas Waste Report: 9,300,000,000 Gallons of Death

DEP found radium-226 concentrations in oil and gas wastewater samples ranging from 40.5 – 26,600 picocuries per liter. For comparison, the limit for drinking water is 5 picocuries per liter.
By John Able, The Allegheny Voice, September 14, 2019

How …

August 6, 2019

PA Commonwealth Court Ignores State Supreme Court Decision

In a very unusual ruling, the Commonwealth Court stated that 2/3 of State Forest gas drilling money transferred by the General Assembly from DCNR’s Oil and Gas Lease Fund to the state General Fund in 2009 was part of the …

May 26, 2019

Toxic Frack Waste Damages Sewage Treatment Plant, Contaminates River

By John F. Stolz, Ph.D., Professor, Biological Sciences, Duquesne University


I was down at the Belle Vernon municipal waste water treatment plant April 11. I got samples and did tests for salts and metals. The leachate was very similar in …

May 26, 2019

PA Attorney General to Investigate Landfill Runoff Problems in Westmoreland County

Runoff contaminated by shale gas drilling and fracking waste chemicals has damaged sewage treatment plant
By Don Hopey and David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 23, 2019

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s Environmental Crimes Section will investigate how landfill runoff damaged the

October 9, 2017

DCS Analysis of Leased Land in Damascus Township, Wayne County, PA Still Relevent

DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Here we are going back a decade, with the pro-drilling minority calling names and distorting the reality of property ownership, who actually pays the taxes, and for that matter, the moral, ethical, and in PA the

June 21, 2017

PA Supreme Court Rules State Forest Gas Royalty Transfers Unconstitutional

Royalties earned on gas and oil extracted from state forests must be used for conservation and cannot be transferred to other departments for budgetary purposes
By Laura Legere and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 20, 2017

This lawsuit was brought

April 10, 2017

Unbelievable! PA DEP Sues Towns in Favor of Frackers

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment
By InTheseTimes, April 4, 2017

In 2012, PA’s Act 13 made major changes to the rules governing the oil and gas industry.
In 2013, the PA Supreme

March 21, 2017

Tell the PA Attorney General to Investigate the DEP

Sign this petition telling PA Attorney General Shapiro to investigate the PA DEP
Petition by Pennsylvanians Against Fracking

Petition Background
New information from investigators at Public Herald shows Department of Environmental Protection has systematically handled fracking-related complaints with misconduct.

Investigators …

February 12, 2017

Study Finds Rise in Methane in PA Gas Country

Readings showed a rise in the potent greenhouse gas from 2012 to 2015, and the region’s boom in natural gas production is likely to blame
By Zahra Hirji, Inside Climate News, February 11, 2017

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