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Out of sight, Out of mind, Out of Control
By Eli Scott, Oakland Field Canvass Director The Clean Water Action field canvass flaunts over 500 letters collected door to door calling for the shut down of illegal injection wells This is the third in an ongoing series on California oil and gas issues, as part of "July: Oil and Gas Month." Click here to see all the entries in this series. Imagine you’re sitting around your house and you’ve got a few 50-gallon drums of crude oil diluted with salty water laced with heavy metals and low-level radioactive material. You’re probably thinking, “Man, I really need to do something with these drums
What is Oil & Gas Doing to the Susquehanna River?
By Nathan Sooy, Central Pennsylvania Campaign Coordinator In the past 7 years, the Susquehanna Watershed has seen a tremendous industrial buildout of drilling sites, frack pits, condensate tanks, compressor stations, and pipelines. What effect has these oil & gas operations in North Central Pennsylvania had on the health of the Susquehanna River Watershed? We really do not know, because the Governors of the Susquehanna states of Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland have no answer to the question. They have no answer because no comprehensive, multi-state cumulative impact study has ever been
First of its kind: California's groundwater monitoring program for fracking
By Andrew Grinberg, California Oil & Gas Program Manager - Follow Andrew on Twitter (@AndrewBGrinberg) A drilling rig in Shafter, CA, where fracking is occurring among almond orchards and right next to homes. Photo Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking This is the second installment of our ongoing series on California oil and gas policy that will be running throughout the month of July. Click here to see the whole series. On Tuesday, the State Water Resources Control Board ("Water Board" for short) finalized groundbreaking criteria for monitoring aquifers near fracking operations. Two years
Imagining Sustainable Streets
“The siding is all new so the fire must have been recent,” said Rachel Newman-Greene, from West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation guiding our walking tour.
What a Surprise: The Dirty Water Caucus is at it Again
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) As the U.S. House of Representatives takes up spending bills for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Interior (DOI) funding today and tomorrow, I’m thinking of two simple yet astute questions posed by my colleagues this week. Has the Congressional process around federal spending bills always been like this? “It feels like it,” I told our Oil and Gas Campaigns Coordinator John Noel. “But I don’t think so.” The basic business of passing spending bills to fund the federal government’s activity has