November 1, 2024
Let the threat of an incinerator in our community be the push that catapults us all into the ZERO WASTE/ZERO PLASTIC movement!
These are the guidelines I use to help my family reach Zero Waste AND Zero Plastic:
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September 14, 2024
May 18, 2024
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!
January 10, 2024
August 3, 2023
Guest essay by Siri Lawson, who lives along a dirt road in northwest PA.
By Siri Lawson, PA Environment Digest Blog, August 2, 2023
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 …
July 29, 2023
UPDATE (8/7/23): G2 STEM LLC has withdrawn its application for this injection well permit!
Read background information in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
DCS has submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing the issuance of a permit for an injection …
May 14, 2023
When we need a lawyer to get the job done.
DCS has worked with some excellent environmental attorneys over the years, the latest being Lauren Williams, to keep fracking out of the Delaware River Basin. Together, with your support, …
May 13, 2023
What’s in a name? How niggling about a definition kept poison out of your backyard.
Sharp eyes at DCS, and brilliant legal advocacy, get the DRBC to close a gaping loophole in their regulations, keeping toxic frack waste out …
May 1, 2023
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 …
April 30, 2023
Sued by DCS, the DRBC agreed to clarify their regulations to make clear that wastewater from all fracking sites, not just unconventional gas wells, is banned in the Basin.
By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press, April 28, 2023
By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press, April 28, 2023
An environmental group …
January 11, 2023
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 …
July 20, 2022
Come to Riverfest 2022, Sunday, July 24, in Narrowsburg, NY from 10 am to 4 pm.
Join DCS at Riverfest 2022 in Narrowsburg, NY on Sunday, July 24. We will have up to date information on the fight to keep …
