The League of Women Voters of NYS, with avid input and inspiration from DCS Director Barbara Arrindell and member Marge Schab, pushed for this legislation from its introduction in 2011 until this year when it passed.
The logic was to …
Rolling Stone’s Justin Nobel reports …
Bill Huston, an independent researcher and environmental activist, has done extensive research on the proposed Battery Recycling Facility, planned for the old IBM site in Endicott, NY. The NY DEC is asking for comments on the facility until December 5. …
Published this year by PennState Institute of Energy and Environment this map shows all the unpaved roads in Pennsylvania. You can zoom way in.
How …
Download the full report – Still Wasting Away – as a pdf
Read the Earthworks press release
Download Earthworks comments on the EPA’s …
DCS Director Barbara Arrindell’s Comments to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection:
I am writing for an environmental organization, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS). As the Director, I have overseen many explorations of the negative effects of both water and …
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 …
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s Environmental Crimes Section will investigate how landfill runoff damaged the
…By Siri Lawson, Farmington Township, Warren County
Republished from PA Environment Digest Blog with the author’s permission
Read more on brine dumping from Siri Lawson in PA Environment Digest Blog
DCS has long had concerns about the land and road …
They’ve spread it on roads. They’ve irrigated almond farms and fruit groves with it. The …
A variety of methods are currently being employed to dispose of oil and gas well brine (OGB), a byproduct of all gas and oil drilling, including conventional and fracked wells. One such practice is spreading OGB on unpaved roads for …
