February 19, 2024

Bomb Trains Along the Delaware River?

‘Bomb Trains’
Poly Vinyl Chloride
Ethane Cracker Plants
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 – …

March 22, 2022

Stop LNG by Rail

Sign the petition calling on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to ban LNG “bomb” trains.

Petition to be delivered to PHMSA on March 31, 2022, so please sign before then.


Background:
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …

August 27, 2021

Pipelines Continue to Catch Fire and Explode – Are They Insured?

Natural Gas Pipelines Are Not Required To Carry Insurance Or Show They Can Pay For Damages If They Explode, Leak Or Kill Someone
By David E. Hess, PA Environment Digest, August 2, 2021

The PA Environment Digest prepared a policy

February 18, 2019

Worries Growing About Dangers Oil Field Workers Face

From 2008 through 2017, 1,566 workers died from injuries in the oil and gas drilling industry
By Jim Morris, The Denver Post, December 23, 2018

Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oil fields since he was 16 and acquired …

November 22, 2016

Don't Allow the Industry to Park Crude Oil Barges on the Hudson

Submit your comments to the Coast Guard here

oil-barge-spillA forward from Zephyr Teachout:

This weekend I went out on the Hudson River with John Lipscomb, the boat captain of Riverkeeper, to look at where the industry wants to get free …

January 31, 2016

As US Rushes to Build Gas Lines, Failure Rate of New Pipes Has Spiked

New pipelines are failing at a rate on par with gas transmission lines installed before the 1940s
By Sarah Smith, SNL Financial, September 9, 2015

The push to build new pipelines to transport abundant shale supplies appears to be having …

December 31, 2015

Video Makes Visible CA’s Unseen Natural Gas Disaster

A huge methane leak near Los Angeles is spewing tens of thousands of pounds of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every hour
By Todd Woody, TakePart, December 29, 2015

See all the work DCS has done on methane baselines.

More …

December 7, 2015

Massive Natural Gas Storage Leak Alarms CA Residents, Climate Activists

Rupture at Aliso Canyon natural gas storage site has released the equivalent of 800,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and won’t be plugged for another 3 months
By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, December 4, 2015

It’s the climate equivalent of …

October 14, 2015

What Are Gas Drilling Jobs Really Like?

Gas Drilling JOBS?
What Are They REALLY Like?

Watch GASWORK on line.
SEE All in with Chris Hayes’ Josh Fox interview about GASWORK.
Download the GASWORK Screening Guide.
Find out more about gas workers and their issues at Gas Vets.

October 7, 2015

Drilling's Safety Exemptions and How They Got There

“It’s mind-boggling to me how many safety standards they’re exempt from”
By Mike Soraghan, E & E Publishing, November 4, 2014

Read more in the series Danger Zone: Examining Safety in the Oil & Gas Boom

In 1983, troubled by …

September 14, 2015

Gas Drilling's Safety Exemptions and How They Got There

It’s mind-boggling how many safety standards the gas and oil industry is exempt from
By Mike Soraghan, E & E Publishing, November 4, 2014

The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks occupational injuries, but they are employer-reported and, therefore, low.…

August 26, 2015

PA DEP Reaches Penalty Agreements with 3 Natural Gas Exploration Companies

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced it has finalized penalty agreements with three natural gas exploration companies for methane gas migration violations that impacted private drinking water wells in Bradford, Lycoming, and Tioga counties.

“These were complex …

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