September 21, 2022

Tell DRBC NO Frack Waste

Our clean drinking water is at risk! Sign this petition telling the DRBC to BAN the import of toxic frack waste into the Delaware River Basin.

New York City’s award winning, wonderful tap water is imperiled by the Delaware River …

September 19, 2022

Court Upholds DRBC Fracking Ban

Court also confirms the the Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA) to the PA Constitution should be used to preserve the “natural resources [that] are the common property of all the people….”
By David E. Hess, PA Environment Digest Blog, September 16,
March 22, 2022

Stop LNG by Rail

Sign the petition calling on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to ban LNG “bomb” trains.

Petition to be delivered to PHMSA on March 31, 2022, so please sign before then.


Background:
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …

February 16, 2022

Toxic Radioactive Waste Imported into the Delaware River Basin?  WHAT?

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) has proposed regulations that would allow toxic waste from fracking into the Delaware River Basin, and the export of water from the basin for fracking elsewhere. If we can avert that threat, it could …

January 26, 2022

Latest on the DRBC Frack Ban Rules

Summary (see press release below for more information):
The deadline for submitting comments on the DRBC’s frack ban rules has been extended to February 28, 2022.
Comments can be submitted online here.
Top 10 Talking Points can be found here.

December 11, 2021

YOUR Comments to the DRBC Needed to Keep Frack Waste Out of the Basin

The latest on the DRBC Frack Ban Rules

Written comments can be submitted to the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) via their online form (see the DRBC’s instructions for submitting comments and their schedule of hearings) or by mail. The

October 29, 2021

DRBC Proposed Regulations Don’t Approach a FULL BAN on Fracking!


It looks as if the DRBC came through and banned waste water import and treatment, and virtually all, if not all, export of fresh water for fracking. But the devil’s in the details, so we’re not celebrating yet. For example,

October 28, 2021

NY DEC Denies Permit for Danskammer Power Plant near Newburgh

Proposed plant expansion did not meet greenhouse gas limits demanded by state’s climate law, officials say
By Cloey Callahan, Time Union, October 27, 2021

The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) denied operating permits for both Danskammer and Astoria gas

September 14, 2021

Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition to DRBC: Pass a FULL BAN on Fracking

The Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition, of which DCS is a member, addressed the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) at it’s September 9, 2021 public meeting and presented evidence as to why the DRBC must pass a full ban

June 26, 2021

DC Circuit Rejects FERC Approval of Existing Spire Gas Pipeline

“An unprecedented mess of FERC’s own creation.”
By Catherine Morehouse, June 23, 2021, UtilityDive

Dive Brief:

  • A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday vacated a federal order granting a $287 million Midwest
June 24, 2021

US District Court Rules that DRBC Fracking Ban Stands

Federal judge sides with Senate Democrats to protect the drinking water of 5,000,000 Pennsylvanians.
The Bradford Era, June 11, 2021

Claims by Damascus and Dyberry Townships, and Carbon and Wayne Counties, were also dismissed.


State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) announced …

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

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