June 19, 2012

Middlefield Court Confirms Prior Decision: Local Land Use Authority Not Preempted

Another victory for our side.  As predicted, Tom West’s “smoking gun” legislative history memo does NOT change the court’s decision – communities may use zoning to ban fracking. – Helen Holden Slottje

In its decision, the New York State Supreme …

June 19, 2012

Gov. Corbett Turns Up Pressure on Neighbors

Lobbies states to open up Delaware River basin for gas drilling
By Tim Darragh, The Morning Call, June 18, 2012

Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration has been lobbying neighboring states to approve regulations to open the Delaware River basin to natural …

June 18, 2012

NYS Agreement to Allow Landowners to Renegotiate Natural Gas Leases

A.G. SCHNEIDERMAN ANNOUNCES LANDMARK

AGREEMENT WITH CHESAPEAKE APPALACHIA TO ALLOW

LANDOWNERS TO RENEGOTIATE NATURAL GAS LEASES

In Addition To Allowing Over4,400 Leases To Be Renegotiated, Chesapeake Agrees To Pay $250K For Cost Of State Investigation

Schneiderman: Landowners Will Have The

June 15, 2012

Inventory of Oil and Gas Well Stray Gas Cases

Department of Environmental Protection

Bureau of Oil and Gas Management

Stray Natural Gas Migration Associated with Oil and Gas Wells

Click here to download the PA DEP document

Commercial oil production started in Pennsylvania in 1859 when Colonel Drake drilled …

June 15, 2012

How the Fracking Industry Keeps its Secrets

Nondisclosure agreements prevent doctors and researchers from gathering valuable data on the health and environmental impacts of fracking.
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout.org, May 17, 2012

The “Rogers” family signed a surface-use agreement with a fracking company in 2009 to close …

June 13, 2012

NYC's Odd Sense of Good Health: No Big Sodas But Radioactive Kitchens

He wants big soda out of our lives, but Mayor Bloomberg wants to put in our lives, cancer-causing radon.
By Eileen Stukane, Huff Post New York, June 12, 2012

For his desired ban on the sale of 32-ounce sugar-sweetened beverages …

June 12, 2012

Add Your Name to the Letter to NY City Council Speaker Quinn Re: Radon in Marcellus Gas

CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME to the June 1, 2012 letter to Speaker Quinn beginning:

Dear Speaker Quinn;

We are writing to request your assistance in holding joint hearings of the Committee on Environmental Protection and the Committee on …

June 12, 2012

PASA Asserts its Position in Favor of a Moratorium on Unconventional Gas Extraction

Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture Urges a Moratorium on Unconventional Gas Drilling
June 11, 2012

PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Promoting Profitable Farms that Produce Healthy Food for All
People while Respecting the Natural Environment
Statement on Unconventional Natural Gas

June 7, 2012

Okla. Billionaire’s Meltdown Could Mean More Pa. Fracking

“The world’s biggest fracker” plans to save itself by shifting from “a strategy of asset capture to a strategy of asset harvest.”
By Will Bunch and Daily News Staff Writer, Philly.com, June 6, 2012

OK, SO THINGS aren’t looking so

June 5, 2012

Press Release – NY City Council Speaker Quinn is Asked for Hearings on Radon in Marcellus Gas Coming to NYC

Press Release – for immediate release                                              June 4, 2012

Speaker Quinn is asked for Hearings on Radon in Marcellus gas coming to NYC

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability(DCS) and NYH2O along with over 50 signatories have sent a letter to Speaker …

June 4, 2012

Letter to NY City Council Re: Joint Hearings on Radon in Natural Gas from the Marcellus Shale

This letter discusses the potential for exposing every New York household that uses natural gas to dangerous levels of radioactive radon.

Click HERE to read the letter as delivered on June 4.
Read the Press Release here.

For additional information:

June 4, 2012

Ohio Lawmakers Approve New Oil and Gas Well Regulations

New regulations for the oil and gas industry in Ohio are heading to Gov. John Kasich’s desk.
By John Funk, The Plain Dealer, May 24, 2012

New regulations for the oil and gas industry in Ohio are heading to Gov. …

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