Posted on November 4, 2022
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Photo by Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA Governor Wolf Portrait, CC BY 2.0, Source In one of his final acts as Pennsylvania’s governor, Tom Wolf signed a huge, multi-billion dollar taxpayer giveaway, in large part to the oil and gas industry. Stephen Caruso… Continue Reading “Governor Tom Wolf’s Fracking Legacy”
Category: Pennsylvania legislature, SW Pennsylvania, Utica shale, Washington County PATags: blue hydrogen, climate change, drilling, fracking, Governor Wolf, Harrisburg, HB1059, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen, hydrogen hub, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Legislature
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 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
Posted on October 10, 2022
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Senator Gene Yaw of northeastern PA is at it again! Promoting climate changing fossil fuels, while kneecapping renewables. He’s joined by another political shill for the Oil & Gas industry from western PA, Senator Camera Bartolotta. Here’s the latest: Bills Establishing Incentives for Using… Continue Reading “PA Bills Establish Incentives for Fossil-Fuel Vehicles While Eliminating Hybrids and EVs”
Category: electric vehicles, fossil fuels, Legislation, Pennsylvania legislatureTags: alternate fuels, biomass, blue hydrogen, Camera Bartolotta, electric vehicle, EV, Gene Yaw, Harrisburg, hybrid vehicle, hydrogen, Pennsylvania, propane
Posted on September 22, 2022
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To Give $1.8 Billion Boost to Pa. Economy and Help Farmers By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | September 19, 2022 With solar energy policy on the agenda of the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee on September 20, dozens… Continue Reading “Landowners Urge Pa. Lawmakers to Pass Real Community Solar Energy Bills”
Posted on July 21, 2022
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Imagine if you didn’t have to buy anywhere near the level of car insurance needed to protect yourself and others. Then, following a wreck, taxpayers paid for the repairs. In a sense, that’s what was just recently passed by Pennsylvania lawmakers, for their buddies… Continue Reading “Another PA Taxpayer Giveaway”
Posted on July 13, 2022
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You can thank ‘frac happy’ Republican legislators like Yaw and Metcalfe for keeping our Commonwealth in the ‘stone ages’ when it comes to promoting a healthy environment. Also, their latest ‘gas buddy’ enabling efforts will likely cause Pennsylvania to lose federal highway funds. David… Continue Reading “Backwards Pennsylvania”
Category: energy, fossil fuels, Pennsylvania legislatureTags: air pollution, climate change, conventional gas wells, Daryl Metcalfe, drilling, emissions, environment, federal highway funds, fracking, Gene Yaw, GOP, Harrisburg, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania Constitution, unconventional gas wells, VOCs