by Nelson Bailey | Apr 21, 2017 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
Activists are using the in-person events in lawmakers’ home districts during the Easter recess to push Republicans to fight global warming and resist President Trump’s environmental rollbacks. It’s part of a nationwide effort, organized in part by left-wing...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 18, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
April 17, 2017 ALBANY, N.Y. — Thousands of New Yorkers are asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reject two projects that would increase the flow of crude oil through Albany. A letter signed by more than 3,500 New Yorkers asked the governor to deny permits for...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 15, 2017 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels
Aaron G. Cahill1,2, Colby M. Steelman1 , Olenka Forde2 , Olukayode Kuloyo3 , S. Emil Ru3 , Bernhard Mayer3 , K. Ulrich Mayer2 , Marc Strous3 , M. Cathryn Ryan3 , John A. Cherry1 and Beth L. Parker1 * Expansion of shale gas extraction has fuelled global concern about...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 13, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
April 12, 2017 NEW YORK – Environmentalists are celebrating Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to block construction of a 99-mile pipeline through western New York. The 24-inch Northern Access Pipeline would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to Canada....
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 11, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Comments by Chad Oba of Friends of Buckingham (www.friendsofbuckinghamva.org). Farmville Herald | Jordan Miles | April 11, 2017 Read More
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 10, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking
In some parts of the country, people are urged to pray for rain. In Oklahoma, the governor once told people to pray for oil prices. But as oil and gas fracking continue to spread throughout the state, Oklahomans’ concern might be more about the industry’s impact on...
