A mid-level appeals court on Thursday said local governments in New York can ban hydraulic fracturing and shale-gas drilling …
Renewable New York by 2030: Local Energy Today and Tomorrow!
Where: Mt. Kisco Public Library, 100 E. Main St., Mt. Kisco, NY
When: Monday, May …
A number of us heard the news release from the Binghamton NPR station earlier tonight that the PA DEP has decided that the gas in Matt and Tammy Manning’s Franklin Forks water well is NOT from any gas well drilled …
Westchestesr/Rockland Newsday reports on a trip NY State Senator David Carlucci took to view hydrofracking sites in PA, a trip that has increased his determination to push a bill he has introduced to delay any permits on hydrofracking until three …
The Texas Tribune reported yesterday on legislative attempts to address the damage done to Texas roads by drilling:
…“The Texas Department of Transportation has estimated that maintaining infrastructure impacted by the drilling boom will cost $4 billion a year. Advocates
Joel Dyer of the Boulder Weekly reports how a slowly unfolding benzene-contamination disaster for a local creek and, ultimately, the Colorado River, was created by the conflict of interest in the state regulatory agency’s role as both purported regulator and …
The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) has sent a letter to New York State Governor Cuomo urging him to reject the Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) due to a conflict of interest on the part …
By Lenny Bernstein and Juliet Eilperin
The Washington Post published: April 22
The Environmental Protection Agency objected Monday to the State Department’s latest review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, suggesting that more work must be done before the Obama …
You Have to See It to Believe It: What It’s Like to Have Fracking in Your Backyard
Residents in industry-friendly West Virginia share their experiences, photos and videos. April 15, 2013
From Alternet, by Tara Lohan
By SANDRA STEINGRABER, Part 2, April 19, 2013
This morning–I have no idea what time this morning, as there are no
clocks in jail, and the florescent …
An Open Letter to New York Farm Bureau,
We now know that gas drilling is shrinking the Pennsylvania dairy
By SANDRA STEINGRABER, Part 1, April 18, 2013
When Henry David Thoreau spend a night in jail for civil disobedience–defining the term in the process–he was served chocolate and brown bread for breakfast. The tray that was slid under my …
