January 12, 2019

Thanks to You, We Made Our Match!

Thanks to Generous Donors Like You, DCS Has Made it’s Match for 2018 and Now Turns it’s Attention to 2019

Generous supporters provided a $12,500 matching fund for 2018, and you stepped up to the plate to match it with

December 20, 2018

Still Relevant: Documents Presented to the DRBC

DCS has been supporting the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in opposition to a Wayne Land and Mineral Group’s (WLMG) lawsuit which challenges the DRBC’s regulatory authority:

December 19, 2018

New Study: Greenhouse Gas is More Dangerous than Regulators Thought

New evidence not only strengthens the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, it shows that greenhouse gas impacts could be much worse than expected
Climate & Capitalism, December 14, 2018

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is legally required to regulate air pollutants

December 14, 2018

The Climate Report That Trump Tried to Bury

Summary of major U.S. government report that warns of major threats to human health and safety, quality of life, and economic growth Climate & Capitalism, November 24, 2018

Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the U.S. Global

December 12, 2018

Help Ban Fracking in the Basin in 2019

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) has proposed a ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). Though their period for public comments is closed, it is the governors of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania who will …

December 10, 2018

Landowners Beat National Fuel in Court to Preserve Piece of Paradise

Pipeline company’s right to an easement under eminent domain law denied
By By T.J. Pignataro, The Buffalo News, November 26, 2018

Joseph and Theresa Schueckler couldn’t understand how their land could be taken from them for a project that wasn’t …

November 12, 2018

Anticipatory Nuisance Claim Allowed Against Frac Sand Mine

WIS. TRIAL COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF ANTICIPATORY NUISANCE CLAIMS AGAINST FRAC SAND MINE; OMNITRAX CALLS IT QUITS

In a written decision issued on Election Day, the Jackson Co. Wis. Circuit Court, Judge Scott Horne of La Crosse presiding, ruled …

November 7, 2018

Frack Brine is Ineffective for Dust Control and a Health Hazard

A variety of methods are currently being employed to dispose of oil and gas well brine (OGB), a byproduct of all gas and oil drilling, including conventional and fracked wells. One such practice is spreading OGB on unpaved roads for …

September 25, 2018

The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare

Water itself now poses a risk to the already failing financial model of the American fracking industry
By Justin Mikulka, De Smog, September 18, 2018

DCS has focused on fracking’s water use and production of liquid waste for many years

September 11, 2018

Secret Chemicals Used in Fracking

Download the Report as a pdf.
Read more about the report online.
Download this Media Advisory as a pdf.
See below for an Executive Summary of the Report

MEDIA ADVISORY: September 11, 2018

NEW REPORT: Secret Chemicals Used in

August 19, 2018

Join Us 8/26 to Demand Fracking Ban in the DRB

Media Advisory

Contacts:
B. Arrindell, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, 845.252.6677
dcs@DamascusCitizens.org
Tracy Carluccio, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, 215.369.1188×104
tracy@delawareriverkeeper.org
Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper, 845.439.1230
info@catskillmountainkeeper.org

River Demonstrators to Demand Complete Fracking Ban
Residents to unfurl banner over Delaware River against fracking

August 18, 2018

President of Mexico Vows to Ban Fracking

Newly Elected President of Mexico, Lopez Obrador, Vows to Ban Fracking
By Steve Horn, DeSmog, August 1, 2018

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who won the election to become Mexico’s President on July 1, stated in a press conference that …

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