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 21, 2017 | Health & Safety
Article from Farmville Herald by managing editor Jordan Miles on 4/20/2017 Read More
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 21, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline spilled an estimated 2 million gallons of drilling fluid pollutants into wetlands “adjacent to” the Tuscarawas River in Navarre, Ohio, last week, according to a notice of violation filed by the Ohio EPA. Another 50,000 gallons of fluid...
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 16, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Despite concerns that the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline could threaten the primary source of drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux, a federal judge ruled that the pipeline’s developer can keep some information about spill risks secret from the public. The...
