DCS submitted extensive comments on the Skinners Falls Bridge to PennDOT and the Federal Highway Administration on Feb. 3, 2025, outlining their “persistent refusal to follow established statutory and regulatory environmental and historic preservation review processes”. The introduction to these …
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Poly Vinyl Chloride
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Ted Waddell’s Train Bomb Coverage in the River Reporter
Petition to Ban LNG on Trains in the DRB
Please register now for EPA Webinar on Banning Vinyl Chloride 2.20.24, at 1:00 – …
Gov. Shapiro Announces Agreement with CNX on Fracking Health Measures, Says New Regulations Coming
As PA Attorney General, Mr. Shapiro was actually face to face with people impacted by fracking. What money compensates for someone losing their health or a …
By Siri Lawson, PA Environment Digest Blog, August 2, 2023
We have dodged this particular bullet here in the Delaware River Basin, thanks in part to …
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 …
Words can’t hide an impending mess – don’t believe the spin from the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) and the media coverage of the DRBC’s December 7, 2022 regulatory changes.
Yes, the media had to get coverage of the DRBC …
DRBC’s new rules governing fracking (see the press release) are disingenuous – they are not a positive step and will not protect the resources of the Delaware River Basin as the DRBC is mandated to do. These new …
By Jon Hurdle, Yale Environment 360, November 17, 2022
This bears out what DCS has been saying since our inception in 2008: Fracking …
In September, a coalition of Scientists, Activists, and Families, called SAFE, traveled to DC to call out the EPA:
STOP working for corporations and start working for people!
CHEMICALS are polluting our water, air, and soil, and making us sick.…
By David E. Hess, PA Environment Digest Blog, May 31, 2022
On April …
By David E. Hess, PA Environment Digest Blog, May 2, 2022
PA DEP allows …
By Mark Michaud, University of Rochester Medical Center, April 11, 2022