by Nelson Bailey | Mar 2, 2017 | Fracking, Health & Safety, Natural Gas
PITTSBURGH – Forty-thousand doctors, nurses and public-health professionals have asked the oil and gas industry to stop opposing policies to reduce methane emissions. In an open letter to the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry lobbying group, the health advocates...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 28, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
After a years-long search for a country place to retire, Bill and Lynn Limpert found a home in the mountains near Bolar in Bath County, Virginia. Forested and mountainous, Bath County’s 4,600 residents live in the Alleghany Mountains. Know for its picturesque farms...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 28, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
William Atkinson and his wife Wilma are among 58 property owners in Michigan facing an eminent domain lawsuit filed in federal court by Energy Transfer Rover Pipeline earlier this month. “They want to build an access road through our property, but we have not...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 28, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels, Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has long been tied to environmental risks such as spills. The frequency of spills, however, has long been murky since states do not release standardized data. Estimates from the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) vary wildly....
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 26, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
A proposed 300-mile natural gas pipeline would cut a swath across the Appalachian Trail and could undermine protections for other National Scenic Trails across the country. In Virginia, where the Appalachian National Scenic Trail is crossed by more black bears and...
