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Proceed with Caution: Report on PA’s Energy Future Makes Unreliable Economic Claims

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): HARRISBURG, PA (December 21, 2012) — Sharon Ward, Director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, responded to the recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce/IHS report, America’s New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil … Continue reading →

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Learn to Document Fracking Problems in PA—December 18, Harrisburg

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From Clean Water Action PA (http://www.cleanwateraction.org/pa): Part of the difficulty of dealing with the effects offFracking on our communities is documenting the problems that exist. Frac Tracker is a vital part of the struggle to figure out what is going on. … Continue reading →

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Loyalsock State Forest in Danger of Fracking

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Forest Coalition (http://www.paforestcoalition.org/): By Karl Blankenship, Editor, Chesapeake Bay Journal [edited for length]. Brook Lenker aimed the van along a dirt road that wound though a narrow valley filled with hardwood trees that had gone largely undisturbed … Continue reading →

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A Poll That Should Surprise No One—Though It Probably Will: Hunters, Anglers, and Global Warming

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): PennFuture is the Pennsylvania affiliate for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), the organization that just released results of a national poll that shows hunters and anglers, a generally ideologically conservative group, prioritize conservation of public lands over … Continue reading →

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Multireligious Service for the Earth and Its People (part of Stop the Frack Attack)—July 28, Washington, DC

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From The Shalom Center (http://shalomctr.org): Saturday, July 28, 1:30 pm, west side of U.S. Capitol, as part of the Stop the Frack Attack demonstration. Join us on July 28 as we participate with thousands of people from around the country … Continue reading →

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Stop the Frack Attack—July 28, Washington, DC

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Do you want to Stop the Frack Attack, the out-of-control rush to drill that is putting oil and gas industry profits over our health, our families, and our futures? Fracking has gone from a … Continue reading →

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Marcellus Shale Drilling Rally and Lobby Day—June 7, Harrisburg

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water (http://www.pacleanwatercampaign.org/):   Come to Harrisburg on Tuesday, June 7!   Pennsylvania’s state legislature has still taken NO ACTION to protect residents from all the problems Marcellus Shale gas drilling is causing in our … Continue reading →

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Delaware River Basin Commission Postpones Vote on ExxonMobil Use of Water from Delaware Tributary—Support Fracking Bans in Your Community

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From Food and Water Watch (http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/):   Congratulations! Because more than 3,000 of our amazing supporters like you took action, the Delaware River Basin Commission voted unanimously to postpone a vote on ExxonMobil’s permit request to take up to 250,000 … Continue reading →

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Interactive Map Illustrates Gas Wells that Put Toxic Contamination in Drinking Water.

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Forest Coalition (http://www.paforestcoalition.org/):   The New York Times collected data from more than 200 gas wells in Pennsylvania. Many of them are tapping into the Marcellus Shale, a vast underground rock formation. But a method being used … Continue reading →

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The Economics of Shale Gas Drilling: What are the Real Consequences?—April 7, Webinar

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

Thursday, April 7, 2010 2:30 – 4:00 pm EDT   About the Webinar:   A group of researchers centered at Cornell University has studied both the short-term (economic impact) and long-term (economic development) consequences of horizontal shale gas drilling. Their … Continue reading →

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