Kudos to New Jersey and Governor Murphy for putting the health and welfare of residents (including the global …
It has been 2 years since the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) voted to ban fracking in the Delaware …
The oil and gas industry is exempt from key provisions of seven major federal environmental laws — allowing practices that would otherwise be illegal. Some exemptions date back …
Science. Evidence. Facts. Do these even matter anymore …
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 …
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 …
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 Gas Lease Fund to the state General Fund in 2009 was part of the …
By Robert W. Howarth
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Methane has been rising rapidly in the atmosphere over the past decade, contributing to global climate change. Unlike the late 20th Century when the …
“In most places, detecting a …
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