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 30, 2022
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Seriously though. The utter shame of it all. The Pennsylvania DOH (Department of Health) has shunned those suffering with health issues in the shale gas patch in the past, so their latest withdrawal comes as no surprise. But the PITT withdrawal was a big… Continue Reading “D’OH! …as Homer Simpson would say”
Category: Pennsylvania Dept of HealthTags: Act 13, buzzwords, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DOH, drilling, Environmental Health Project, fracking, Harrisburg, health study, health threat, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pa. Dept. of Health, Pennsylvania, public health
Posted on May 16, 2022
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Pennsylvania is on track to fully participate in ‘Reggie’ if GOP lawsuits, or the November 8, 2022 gubernatorial election, doesn’t derail the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. “This regulation has the support of businesses and residents, and will save lives… Continue Reading “2021 RGGI Annual Report”
Category: air qualityTags: 2022 election, air pollution, asthma, asthmatic children, carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, COPD, environmental justice, health threat, Monongahela River Valley, nitrogen oxides, PA DEP, particulate matter, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania governor, Pittsburgh, PM, public health, Reggie, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, senior citizens, sulfur dioxide, Three Rivers