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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In a very unusual ruling, the Commonwealth Court stated that 2/3 of State Forest gas drilling money transferred by the General Assembly from DCNR’s Oil and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The failure to safely manage oil and gas waste continues By Melissa Troutman, Earthworks, June 18, 2019 Download the full report – Still Wasting Away – […]
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 […]
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 […]