February 20, 2025

DCS Proposes to Buy the Skinners Falls Bridge


DCS sends Letter of Interest
To Acquire The Nation’s Historic Skinners Falls Bridge:

Objective is to restore, not destroy, the historic bridge.

 
Damascus Citizens …

January 28, 2025

Experts Have Cost Effective Plan to Save the Skinners Falls Bridge

DCS has been working with Greenworks, our environmental attorney, and Wrought Iron Bridge Works, experts in the restoration of historic bridges, to come up with a plan to save the Skinners Falls Bridge.

DCS has sent the following letter to

July 10, 2024

Campaign for a Safe and Healthy CA Scores Big Win Against Big Oil

After Spending $61 Million in a Failed Effort to Deceive Voters, Big Oil Withdraws Referendum in Defeat

THIS is a big deal! California health and environmental activists got a law passed in 2022 whose implementation was blocked by Big Oil

May 18, 2024

Dumped On: Do YOU Live in a DEP Disposal Facility?

PRESS RELEASE   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                    Release date: May 18, 2024
Contact: B. Arrindell, dcs@DamascusCitizens.org, 845-252-6677
 

Do You Live in a DEP Disposal Facility?
237 places in PA and 8 in NY are!

Download the full press release, with references

May 1, 2023

A Remarkable DCS Accomplishment Related to the Whole Delaware Basin

Keeping drilling flow-back/wastewater (brine) out of the river valley and off our roads

DRBC clarifies waste rules in response to DCS challenge: ‘Conventional’ label no longer a loophole.

In January 2023, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) filed a legal complaint

January 11, 2023

DCS Requests Court to Void DRBC Wastewater Exemptions

UPDATED April 23: The DRBC filed a motion to dismiss the DCS complaint (see below), which DCS has voluntarily accepted. Why has DCS accepted? Because the DRBC has conceded 90% of what we were asking for, without us having to

May 3, 2022

Study Links Fracking, Drinking Water Pollution, and Infant Health

New research documents for the first time the pollution of public water supplies caused by fracking, and its negative impacts on infant health.
By Mark Michaud, University of Rochester Medical Center, April 11, 2022

Find out about the connection between

January 26, 2022

Latest on the DRBC Frack Ban Rules

Summary (see press release below for more information):
The deadline for submitting comments on the DRBC’s frack ban rules has been extended to February 28, 2022.
Comments can be submitted online here.
Top 10 Talking Points can be found here.

November 6, 2021

Radioactive Costs of Oil & Gas

The Financial Risk of Underbonded Wells – REGISTER for the FORUM
By Critical State

The growing threat of radioactivity inside the oil and gas industry is increasing companies’ cost of doing business as well as the financial risk to states …

October 29, 2021

DRBC Proposed Regulations Don’t Approach a FULL BAN on Fracking!


It looks as if the DRBC came through and banned waste water import and treatment, and virtually all, if not all, export of fresh water for fracking. But the devil’s in the details, so we’re not celebrating yet. For example,

February 19, 2021

Historic Event? DRBC Could Determine the Fate of the Delaware River Watershed Feb. 25

For Immediate Release

February 18, 2021
Contacts:

Barbara Arrindell, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, dcs@DamascusCitizens.org

Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, keepermaya@delawareriverkeeper.org

Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper,  wes@catskillmountainkeeper.org

Jeff Tittel, Director, New Jersey Sierra Club, jeff.tittel@sierraclub.org

Doug O’Malley, Environment New Jersey,  domalley@environmentnewjersey.org

January 17, 2021

Environmental Groups Fight Lawsuit by PA GOP to Overturn Fracking Moratorium

For Immediate Release

January 15, 2021
Contacts:

B. Arrindell, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, dcs@DamascusCitizens.org

Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, keepermaya@delawareriverkeeper.org

Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper, wes@catskillmountainkeeper.org

Jeff Tittel, Director, New Jersey Sierra Club, jeff.tittel@sierraclub.org

Doug O’Malley, Environment New Jersey, domalley@environmentnewjersey.org

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