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October 8, 2019

Will the Fracking Revolution Peak Before Ever Making Money?

This week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted that the U.S. oil and gas shale industry, already struggling financially, is now facing “core operational issues.” That should […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
July 23, 2019

Is Shale Gas a Major Driver of Recent Increase in Global Atmospheric Methane?

By Robert W. Howarth Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Abstract Methane has been rising rapidly in the atmosphere over the […]
July 22, 2019

Babies Born Near Oil and Gas Wells Are Up to 70% More Likely to Have Congenital Heart Defects

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 […]
July 11, 2019

Still Wasting Away – Frack Waste is a BIG Problem

The failure to safely manage oil and gas waste continues By Melissa Troutman, Earthworks, June 18, 2019 Download the full report – Still Wasting Away – […]
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 […]
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