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Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal DEP Permits For CNX Slickville Natural Gas, Shale Gas Wastewater Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

Both permits are associated with CNX Resource Corporation's Slickville Pipeline Project, which proposes to build a natural gas pipeline and a shale gas wastewater pipeline along a 13.9 The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 acknowledges that fossil fuel production significantly contributes to climate deterioration.

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107 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania - By Ad Crable [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Announces 2024 Community Sentinel Award Recipients To Be Honored Dec.

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US Uranium Mining Legacy Still Harms the Navajo Nation 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Although the US government knew the risks of radiation to humans, many Navajo miners were still sent into mines with poor ventilation and safety regulations skirted. And with the fossil fuel-related pollution that comes with mining, climate change and air quality will be worsened as well for multiple communities in the region.

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Attribution Science and EPA’s Reconsideration of the GHG Endangerment Finding

Law Columbia

The 2009 finding was referenced in subsequent endangerment and cause-or-contribute findings for other source categories, including power plants , oil and natural gas operations , and aircraft. EPA also made a separate cause-or-contribute finding in which it determined that U.S.

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Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Update: Industrial Shale Gas Development In Tioga State Forest Prioritizes Industry Profit Over Constitutional Mandate To Preserve, Protect State Forest Lands

PA Environment Daily

How this section of the TSF was virtually handed over to the shale-gas industry for exploration and fossil-fuel development is beyond explanation. The current plan calls for a pipeline that bends east before intersecting with the existing Tennessee Gas trans-state gasline.

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Environmental Health Project Releases New White Paper: PA's Shale Gas - What We Can Do Now To Better Protect Public Health

PA Environment Daily

However, the administrations definition of clean includes the use of fossil fuels, which will extend the timeline of fossil fuel extraction, endangering the health of those nearby and placing our planet in continued jeopardy. -- Petrochemical facilities , such as the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, rely on fossil fuels to operate.

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Why is EPA at War with Its Own Employees?

Legal Planet

She’s President of AFGE Local 1236, one of the unions that represent workers in EPA Region 9 (California and 4 other Western states) and EPA’s National Center for Radiation Field Operations. “I A new Energy Department report warns of a 100% increase in blackouts if the US closes coal and gas plants. A fifth of U.S.