The League of Women Voters of NYS, with avid input and inspiration from DCS Director Barbara Arrindell and member Marge Schab, pushed for this legislation from its introduction in 2011 until this year when it passed.
The logic was to …
Defeats at three projects reflect increasingly sophisticated legal challenges, shifting economics and growing demands by states to fight climate change
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Brad Plumer, New York Times, July 8, 2020
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Brad Plumer, New York Times, July 8, 2020
Protesters against the Dakota Access pipeline in early …
American Rivers announces 2020 River of the Year alongside Most Endangered Rivers of 2020 release
By Amy Souers Kober, American Rivers, April 14, 2020
By Amy Souers Kober, American Rivers, April 14, 2020
DCS has been fighting fracking in the Delaware River Basin since 2008. We believe DCS has …
Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
By Justin Nobel, Rolling Stone, January 21, 2020
By Justin Nobel, Rolling Stone, January 21, 2020
Rolling Stone’s Justin Nobel reports …
The financial struggles of the U.S. shale industry are becoming increasingly hard to ignore.
By Nick Cunningham, OilPrice.com, December 4, 2019
By Nick Cunningham, OilPrice.com, December 4, 2019
What DCS has been saying all along: they’re losing money on every well, but they keep insisting that “they …
What future do you want for the Delaware River Basin
(the source of water for 20 million people)?
The above or THIS:
DCS is fighting to keep fracking AND frack waste disposal out of the Delaware River Basin and …
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
By John Able, The Allegheny Voice, September 14, 2019
How …
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 …
Researchers at the University of Colorado studied pregnant women who are among the 17 million Americans living within a mile from an active oil or gas well
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams, July 19, 2019
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams, July 19, 2019
“In most places, detecting a …
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 …
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
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
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