December 29, 2011

Federal Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Page on Environmental Health
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Home Page
Toxic Substances Portal (ATSDR): Toxicological Profiles
Public Health Assessment Guidance Manual (ATSDR): Table of Contents
Environmental Data Needed for …

December 29, 2011

A Citizens Guide to Risk Assessments and Public Health Assessments at Contaminated Sites

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

This guide provides an overview of two different assessments commonly performed at hazardous waste sites. These are the risk assessment and the public health assessments; both are required for all sites – commonly …

December 28, 2011

Public Health Assessment Petitions

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

What is ATSDR’s Petition Program?

In the Superfund law, Congress provided ATSDR with the authority to conduct certain public health assessment activities following a request from a concerned person. The ATSDR Petition Program …

December 28, 2011

Oil giant’s shell game nets elderly farmers

Promises made, but not kept, and it’s all legal
By Joshua Schneyer and Brian Grow, REUTERS

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan  — Hundreds of farmers had signed leases with local brokers permitting drillers to tap natural gas and oil beneath their land. …

December 28, 2011

Promises made, but not kept, and it's all legal

By Joshua Schneyer and Brian Grow, Reuters

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan ­ Late in the summer of 2010, hundreds of farmers in northern Michigan were fuming.

All had signed leases with local brokers permitting drillers to tap natural gas and oil …

December 21, 2011

Chesapeake CEO's Open Letter to Shareholders

Chesapeake Energy 2010 Annual Report

Dear Fellow Shareholders,

2010 was a very important year of transition and achievement for Chesapeake, a year in which we initiated three very important strategic shifts: from asset gathering to asset harvesting, from focusing exclusively …

December 21, 2011

Texas Supreme Court Rules Big Gas Mafia Royalty Payment Fraud Okay

By TX Sharon, Blue Daze: Drilling Reform

If that headline is hard to believe, go stick your head back in the sand or where ever you’ve had your head stuck.

COURT FINDS FOR BIG OIL COMPANY OVER SMALL ROYALTY OWNER …

December 20, 2011

EarthJustice and Citizens Challenge Pipelines in Strategic Federal Intervention

Partnership of National, Regional, and Local Groups Move to Intervene in PA Pipeline Project
The River Reporter, “Citizens Challenge Pipelines in Strategic Federal Intervention.”
Greenwire, “Partnership of National and Regional Groups Challenge Pipelines.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania groups are seeking …

December 18, 2011

Report Government Fraud

Investigations Unit of the Legal Services Division

State Comptroller DiNapoli is working to find and fight fraud at every level of State and local government. The public’s help is needed in this fight. New Yorkers can report allegations of fraud, …

December 16, 2011

Radioactive Waste Management Associates

Radioactive Waste Management Associates (RWMA)

RWMA is a Vermont-based consulting firm established in 1989. Our expert team of scientists and engineers evaluate the impact of proposed and existent radioactive waste facilities to assist organizations that are faced with nuclear waste

December 14, 2011

Hydrogen Sulfide

EARTHWORKS

Jim Hope-Ross, the lawyer for Barbara and Larry Graff and their adult son, Darrell, said he found it “disturbing” that the court considered the Graffs “the authors of their own demise.”

“If it’s something cumulative, as it is with …

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