Posted on January 9, 2023
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GROUPS, RESIDENTS WANT EPA TO PROTECT MON VALLEY FROM ‘UNACCEPTABLY HIGH’ LEVELS OF BENZENE POLLUTION FROM U.S. STEEL “There is also likely exposure to other carcinogens… so that the overall risks are even higher. The hydrogen sulfide and particulate issues by themselves could be… Continue Reading “Hey EPA do Something! Ongoing Benzene Pollution by US Steel”
Category: Monongahela River Valley, PennsylvaniaTags: Adam Ortiz, air pollution, benzene, Clairton Coke Works, Edgar Thomson Plant, EIP, EPA Region III, Monongahela River, Monongahela River Valley, US Steel
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, 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 October 5, 2022
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Definition of ‘Rife’ – In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent. An October 1, 2022 BBC story by Jess Kelly, Owen Pinnell & Esme Stallard paints the dark reality facing children and their parents around the oilfields in Iraq. That reality is more poignantly displayed in a video that shows… Continue Reading “FLARING: Where ‘Cancer is Rife’”
Category: Leukemia near gas production, LNG, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil & Gas Contamination, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania air quality, Pennsylvania Dept of Health, Radioactive drilling waste, Washington County PATags: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, benzene, BTEX, Canon-McMillan high school, Canonsburg PA, Cross Creek County Park, Ewing Sarcoma, flares, flaring, health study, health threat, leukaemia, leukemia, radioactive shale, Radium 226
Posted on September 8, 2022
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The September 7, 2022 Reuters story by Valerie Volcovici and Nichola Groom reported an end to the 18-year hazardous pollution rule exemption for turbines at two of Cheniere’s Gulf Coast LNG terminals. Gas turbine owners had until September 5th to comply with NESHAP (National Emission… Continue Reading “Biden administration denies Cheniere’s request to sidestep LNG pollution rule”
Category: LNG, Marcellus shaleTags: air pollution, benzene, Europe, exports, formaldehyde, gas turbines, Gulf Coast, LNG, NESHAP, Nymex
Posted on July 2, 2022
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Today’s Pennsylvania Bulletin includes an “Intent to Issue an Operating Permit under the Air Pollution Control Act” for the Welling Compressor Station at 165 Carlisle Road, Claysville, PA 15323. The Welling is one of the largest compressor stations in our county, one of over… Continue Reading “AIR POLLUTION: Welling Compressor Station in Washington County, PA”
Category: air quality, gas infrastructure, PennsylvaniaTags: asthma, benzene, Buffalo Township, climate change, Code Orange, compressor stations, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, fossil fuels, HAPs, methane, midstream, natural gas, NOx, ozone, Pennsylvania DEP, pipelines, PM10, shale gas, SOx, toluene, VOCs, Washington County, Welling Compressor Station, xylenes