July 9, 2020

Is This the End of New Pipelines?

Defeats at three projects reflect increasingly sophisticated legal challenges, shifting economics and growing demands by states to fight climate change
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Brad Plumer, New York Times, July 8, 2020

Protesters against the Dakota Access pipeline in early …

June 29, 2020

PA Attorney General Releases Scathing Grand Jury Report on Fracking Industry, State Regulators

Report outlines health and safety issues caused by fracking and states PA DEP “repeatedly failed to exercise their duties and responsibilities.”
By Frank Kummer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 2020

Read the press release from the Attorney General’s office
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December 6, 2019

Help DCS Do More in 2020

What future do you want for the Delaware River Basin
(the source of water for 20 million people)?

 

The above or THIS:

DCS is fighting to keep fracking AND frack waste disposal out of the Delaware River Basin and

August 10, 2019

Bait & Switch: DRBC Approves LNG Port in Gibbstown, NJ

The DRBC gave public notice, and had an Environmental Assessment done, for a project in Gibbstown, NJ, then approved a much larger project without adequate public notice and a new Environmental Assessment. The approved project includes an LNG port, which

August 6, 2019

PA Commonwealth Court Ignores State Supreme Court Decision

In a very unusual ruling, the Commonwealth Court stated that 2/3 of State Forest gas drilling money transferred by the General Assembly from DCNR’s Oil and Gas Lease Fund to the state General Fund in 2009 was part of the …

May 26, 2019

Toxic Frack Waste Damages Sewage Treatment Plant, Contaminates River

By John F. Stolz, Ph.D., Professor, Biological Sciences, Duquesne University


I was down at the Belle Vernon municipal waste water treatment plant April 11. I got samples and did tests for salts and metals. The leachate was very similar in …

May 26, 2019

PA Attorney General to Investigate Landfill Runoff Problems in Westmoreland County

Runoff contaminated by shale gas drilling and fracking waste chemicals has damaged sewage treatment plant
By Don Hopey and David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 23, 2019

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s Environmental Crimes Section will investigate how landfill runoff damaged the

April 5, 2019

International Human Rights Court Recommends Worldwide Frac Ban

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has just released its Advisory Opinion, recommending a worldwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, the extreme oil and gas extraction technique known as  ‘fracking.’ The materials, and infrastructure of fracking inherently and necessarily violate human rights, the …

March 21, 2019

US Judge Halts 100’s of Drilling Projects in Groundbreaking Climate Change Ruling

In a rebuke of the Trump administration’s ‘energy-first’ agenda, a judge rules greenhouse gas emissions must be considered
The Guardian, March 20, 2019

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December 10, 2018

Landowners Beat National Fuel in Court to Preserve Piece of Paradise

Pipeline company’s right to an easement under eminent domain law denied
By By T.J. Pignataro, The Buffalo News, November 26, 2018

Joseph and Theresa Schueckler couldn’t understand how their land could be taken from them for a project that wasn’t …

November 12, 2018

Anticipatory Nuisance Claim Allowed Against Frac Sand Mine

WIS. TRIAL COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF ANTICIPATORY NUISANCE CLAIMS AGAINST FRAC SAND MINE; OMNITRAX CALLS IT QUITS

In a written decision issued on Election Day, the Jackson Co. Wis. Circuit Court, Judge Scott Horne of La Crosse presiding, ruled …

January 16, 2018

NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change

The lawsuit against Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips is the latest from a coastal city seeking to hold fossil fuel producers accountable
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News, January 11, 2018

New York City is suing five of the

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