How Camping Taught Me to Value My Surroundings
I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I never received that invite to my first camping trip. I remember it well… After being dropped off by my mom—with a knapsack of […]
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Trump’s environmental agenda threatens human health: Comment early, comment often
On Feb 24, President Trump signed an executive order that established a policy to relieve the country of “unnecessary regulatory burdens.” Trump’s environmental agenda includes the destruction of Obama’s not-yet-implemented Clean Power Plan, a rollback […]
Ding, Dong, the Clean Power Plan is Dead
Ding, Dong, the Clean Power Plan is dead. Them’s fightin’ words in environmental circles. I know. I serve on the steering committee of Pennsylvanians Against Fracking where we spent much of last year analyzing the […]
Gov. Wolf’s Call for Severance Tax Ignores Looming Climate Crisis
Governor Wolf plans to renew his call for a severance tax on unconventional natural gas drilling during Tuesday’s budget address. Pennsylvania is the only major gas-producing state that does not tax drillers for the gas […]
Trumping the Environment
Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump was elected, the environment is going to suffer. Both have supported horizontal fracking, the destruction of the earth to extract oil and gas. The use of fracking is so […]
EPA Changes Course: Fracking Can Contaminate Water Supply
The Environmental Protection Agency walked back its controversial claim that fracking had caused no “widespread systemic” water contamination in the final version of its long-awaited study released today. The claim that appeared in the June […]
Headlines Matter
Editor’s Note: Mark Lichty is the Executive Producer of the film, Groundswell Rising. On June 5, the Pocono Record carried a story with the headline, “Fracking Can be Done Safely, EPA says.” That headline is […]
Dimock, PA Lawsuit Trial-Bound as Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination in Neighboring County
Editor’s Note: This is Steve Horn’s latest piece that originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love – visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about […]
Gretchen Dahlkemper, National Field Manager for Moms Clean Air Force, Talks to Rick Smith About Their Push to force EPA to Strengthen Ozone Standards | March 11, 2015
Gretchen Dahlkemper, National Field Manager for Moms Clean Air Forcejoins Rick to talk about the push to force the EPA to strengthen Ozone standards in the US. Listen to Gretchen’s interview HERE
Koch-Tied Roots of Senator Vitter’s Green Billionaires Club Environmental Attack Report
Editor’s Note: This is Steve Horn’s latest piece that originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love – visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about […]