June 18, 2021

Fracking Wastewater is Radioactive

DCS, Delaware RiverKeeper, Environment New jersey, Catskill Mountainkeeper, FWW, NRDC, NJ Sierra Club, Delaware League of Women Voters and other groups are supporting a series of webinars meant to educate about fracking wastewater and why it should be banned in

May 15, 2021

Skinners Falls Bridge Does NOT Need More than a 10-Ton Limit

This analysis of traffic sources and needs near the Skinners Falls Bridge shows that a 10-ton limit is adequate to meet all needs.


Until June 1, 2021, PennDOT is conducting what it is terming a “traffic survey” of the general …

April 28, 2021

The Skinners Falls Bridge Speaks – Will PennDOT Listen?

The beautiful Skinners Falls Bridge tells us about her long life connecting NY and PA, her relationship with historic Milanville, PA and her hopes for the future (as transcribed by Colleen Rizzo).


April 10, 2021
Hello!

I am the Skinners …

April 13, 2021

Why DCS is Getting Involved in the Skinners Falls Bridge Issue

Why is DCS is getting involved with the Milanville – Skinners Falls Bridge project?

Your comments by April 30 can help persuade PennDOT to rehabilitate the historic Skinners Falls Bridge.


Let’s go back to why Damascus Citizens for Sustainability was …

March 9, 2021

The Even More Game-Changing Biden Order You’ve Never Heard About

Biden’s executive order “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” (“Restoring Science”), issued January 20, has received bafflingly little publicity. In effect, it orders federal agencies to take out the regulatory trash

December 5, 2020

Health Professionals Oppose Gibbstown LNG Export Terminal

In letters to the Delaware River Basin governors and the DRBC, Concerned Health Professionals of NY, and other groups, cite public health, community safety and environmental concerns as reasons to reject this project.

DRBC should pay attention to these letters!

December 3, 2019

Proposed Battery Recycling Facility in Endicott, NY a Hazard

Bill Huston, an independent researcher and environmental activist, has done extensive research on the proposed Battery Recycling Facility, planned for the old IBM site in Endicott, NY. The NY DEC is asking for comments on the facility until December 5.

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 …

August 11, 2019

Oil is a Horrendously Bad Investment

By Phillip Doe, Colorado


This Bank, the world’s 8th largest, estimates the opportunity cost of continued fossil fuel investment at $24 trillion, and that doesn’t include climate and health. Thus oil is a horrendously bad investment strategy even if their …

August 10, 2019

Bait & Switch: DRBC Approves LNG Port in Gibbstown, NJ

The DRBC gave public notice, and had an Environmental Assessment done, for a project in Gibbstown, NJ, then approved a much larger project without adequate public notice and a new Environmental Assessment. The approved project includes an LNG port, which

July 1, 2019

Tell PA DEP: Deny Elcon’s Hazardous Waste Permit Application

DCS Director Barbara Arrindell’s Comments to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection:


I am writing for an environmental organization, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS). As the Director, I have overseen many explorations of the negative effects of both water and …

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 …

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