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Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt Into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate
This article discusses Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt Into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate. An expanding petrochemical industry, thanks to fracked shale gas, could have big consequences for a warming planet.
The petrochemical industry anticipates spending a total of more than $200 billion on factories, pipelines […]
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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
This article discusses EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico. Unbelievable!!
Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into […]
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What Is Coal Ash and Why Is It Dangerous? And a Dam break in NC
The first article discusses what coal ash is and why it is so dangerous. The phrase “coal ash” made headlines this week after a dam on a lake at the site of a power plant in Wilmington, N.C., was breached, allowing the hazardous ash into a river that […]
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EPA to abandon restrictions against chemical linked to climate change
This article discusses how EPA is about to abandon restrictions against chemical linked to climate change.
The Trump administration is planning to do away with an Obama-era regulation that restricted a known greenhouse gas from being used as a refrigerant in household appliances.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) late Wednesday announced it’s […]
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METABOLIC DISRUPTING POTENTIAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS OPERATION CHEMICALS AND MIXTURES
This blog discusses how the chemicals used in fracking cause significant health problems for people.
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Pipeline Exploded – Part of Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Network
This article discusses a recent pipeline explosion in Pennsylvania.
A column of fire shot 150 feet in the air and destroyed a home, a barn, and several cars. Residents of over two dozen homes, including Belczyk, were evacuated, with one family barely escaping the flames that engulfed their home, […]
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Report: More than half PA gas wells used ‘secret’ chemicals for fracking or drilling
This article discusses a report that shows that more than half PA gas wells used ‘secret’ chemicals for fracking or drilling.
Energy companies in Pennsylvania declined to identify potentially harmful chemicals used for drilling and fracking for natural gas in more than half the unconventional wells developed between 2013 and […]
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Study: Radioactive fracking chemicals dumped in the Allegheny River a decade ago are still showing up in mussels
This article discusses a study of mussels that had been exposed to radioactive fracking chemicals. They bwere dumped in the Allegheny River a decade ago, and are still showing up in mussels – “This means it’s entering the food chain.”
Chemicals from fracking wastewater dumped into Pennsylvania’s […]
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Book: The Beginning of the End of the World – one family’s fracking experience
This article discusses a book about a “Reckless” Fracking Company, Poisoned Springs, and a Family Forced to Buy Water at Walmart.
Driving West along the Pennsylvania Turnpike from Harrisburg to rural Washington County, sign after sign pitted energy companies against environmentalists. An evil-looking clown leered down at passing […]
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Study: Fracking Chemicals Boost Fat Cells
This article discusses how fracking chemicals harm people.
In the last two decades, hydraulic fracturing or fracking has boomed, gone bust, and is in the midst of another boom, producing close to 6 million barrels of oil and gas per day in the United States. Drillers pump dozens of chemicals […]
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