Category: Marcellus shale
Posted on January 24, 2023
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On Friday morning, January 20, 2023, PA Senate Republicans held a mostly one-sided, pro-fracking, “public hearing” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. David Hess of the PA Environment Digest Blog, filed a report on the meeting here: Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Launch Effort To Unleash The… Continue Reading “Pittsburgh Hospital Groups Promote Fracked Gas Despite Known Health Risks”
Category: Marcellus shale, Pennsylvania Public HealthTags: Allegheny Health Network, commodity prices, drilling, fracking, heating costs, natural gas price, PA Republicans, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, public health, UPMC
Posted on January 12, 2023
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Has anything really improved in the nine years since this was printed? “What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.” Warren Buffett Thanks to Mike Stout of Steel Valley Printers for granting permission to post this PDF copy of “Shalefield… Continue Reading “SHALEFIELD STORIES | Revisiting Our Fracking Past”
Posted on November 17, 2022
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Mr. Hess served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from 2001 to 2003, Executive Deputy at DEP from 1995 to 2001, as staff to the PA Senate Environmental Committee and various positions in the former Department of Environmental Resources, working on… Continue Reading “3 Major Natural Gas Articles from David Hess – PA Environment Digest Blog”
Category: Fracking in Pennsylvania, Health near Fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Oil & Gas Contamination, Pennsylvania air quality, PFAS, Radioactive drilling waste, SW Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: Chevron, drilling, drilling noise, EQT, fracking, health risks, health studies, hydraulic fracturing, impoundment dam, impoundments, LWV, Marcellus Shale, Marianna, PFAS, PITT, public health, shale gas, shale gas drilling, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on November 15, 2022
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Our March 21, 2014 flight over the Utica and Marcellus Shale revealed the rapid pace of development on a huge cryogenic gas plant in a West Virginia valley known as Majorsville (Google Map link) as well as capturing additional images of shale gas production,… Continue Reading “Marcellus Shale Images | Majorsville transformation”
Category: Majorsville, West Virginia, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Utica shale, West VirginiaTags: cryogenic gas plant, gas liquids, gas pipelines, gas processing, images, Majorsville WV, Marcellus Shale, Marcellus shale photos, MarkWest, pipelines, Utica Shale, Utica shale photos, West Virginia
Posted on November 7, 2022
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Lawsuit filed October 28, 2022 in Washington County, Pennsylvania Washington County Courthouse Latkanich v. Chevron et al PFAS: The latest toxic concern for those near fracking By Kristina Marusic | Environmental Health News | August 4, 2022 For more than a decade, Bryan Latkanich… Continue Reading “LANDMARK LAWSUIT: Latkanich v Chevron, EQT, PFAS Defendants”
Category: Litigation, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Pennsylvania, PFAS, SW Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: acetone, air contamination, barium, benzaldehyde, benzene, biocides, butyl cyclohexane, chemicals, Chevron, Crawford County, drill sites, drilling, drinking water, E&S, EQT, ethyltoluene, flaring, formaldehyde, frac fluid, fracking, Fredericktown, gas infrastructure, hippuric acid, hydraulic fracturing, impoundments, Latkanich, lawsuits, Marcellus Shale, Martins Ferry, methane, napthalene, NORM, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, pits, pollution, polyethylene glycol, produced water, radiation, radioactive waste, radium, spills, strontium, styrene, tetradecane, thorium, toluene, toxins, transmuconic acid, Utica Shale, VOCs, water contamination, water well, wells, xylene
Posted on November 6, 2022
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Funding came partly from federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Reid Frazier reports on November 4, 2022 in StateImpact Pennsylvania: EPA awards $4 million for new air monitoring in Pa. environmental justice areas The grants will pay for 11 projects around the state, totaling $4.27… Continue Reading “EPA awards $4 million for new air monitoring in Pennsylvania”
Category: Air pollution, air quality, Allegheny County PA, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DEP violations, EPA, fossil fuels, gas infrastructure, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Pittsburgh International Airport - PIT, Shell Cracker Plant, SW Pennsylvania, U.S. Climate Legislation, Washington County PATags: air emissions, air inversions, air pollution, air quality, air quality monitoring, Allentown, Burgettstown, Clairton, compressor stations, Delaware County, EJ, emissions, EPA, EPA Region III, FracTracker, GASP, MarkWest, New Castle County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ProtectPT, Revolution Gas Plant, Smith Township, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on November 6, 2022
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Bentworth schools were closed Friday November 4, 2022 due to a fire on Johnston Road, in close proximity to Bentworth High School, at Equitrans Midstream’s H-108 natural gas transmission line, located in Bentleyville Borough, Washington County, Pennsylvania. More: News video Source “Equitrans technicians were… Continue Reading “UPDATED: Bentworth School District Closed due to Equitrans Midstream Fire”
Category: Marcellus shale, Oil and gas accidents, Pennsylvania, PipelinesTags: Bentworth High School, Bentworth School District, E-Train, EQT, Equitrans Midstream, ETRN, gas infrastructure, gas transmission
Posted on November 4, 2022
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Environmental Health Project Blog (Note: Images and Bob’s comments have been inserted into the original blog found here) If you’re like most people, you want to be healthy. You want pure drinking water and clean air. You want rivers, streams, and oceans that are… Continue Reading “7 Questions to Ask Candidates about Gas Development & Public Health”
Category: Election 2022, environment, Fracking Health Risks, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus shale, Pennsylvania air quality, Pennsylvania legislature, Washington County PATags: 2022 election, Dr Oz, drilling, Environmental Health Project, fracking, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, John Fetterman, Mehmet Oz, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, public health, US Senate race
Posted on November 1, 2022
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On-Demand Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | November 1, 2022 Center for Coalfield Justice, the Environmental Health Project, Physicians for Social Responsibility, FracTracker Alliance, and Mountain… Continue Reading “VIDEO: Creating a Healthy Home with Shale Gas Development Nearby”
Category: Health near Fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Landfill leachate, Leukemia near gas production, Marcellus shale, Ohio River Valley, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania air quality, Petrochemicals, Pittsburgh, Radioactive drilling waste, Utica shale, Washington County PA, water pollutionTags: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Posted on October 25, 2022
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Dr. Oz flip-flopped on the fracking issue in Pennsylvania. Is he now ignoring his health education and medical knowledge, just to garner votes? Kristina Marusic of Environmental Health News posted an excellent guide October 24, 2022 on the unique environmental health challenges facing Pittsburgh… Continue Reading “Environmental Health in Southwestern Pennsylvania”
Category: Fetterman-Oz, Fracking Health Risks, hydraulic fracturing, Hydrogen development, Leukemia near gas production, LNG, Marcellus shale, Monongahela River, Ohio River Valley, Oil and Gas, ozone, Pennsylvania air quality, Pennsylvania legislature, Radioactive drilling waste, Schools, SW Pennsylvania, United States Senate, US Steel Clairton Coke Works, Washington County PATags: drilling, Election 2022, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, John Fetterman, Marcellus Shale, Mehmet Oz, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, politicians, public health, Senate race, US Senate