Tag: Pennsylvania
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Pop-Up Gardens, Other 'Urban Interventions' to be Showcased at Venice Architecture Biennale
Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.
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Protecting Americans From Natural Gas Air Pollution
Americans are speaking out in support of EPA's coming protections from pollution caused by natural gas and oil drilling.
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Bus Blocks Driver From Fleeing After Hit-and-Run With Cyclist (Video)
Thankfully, the fleeing driver's reputation was the only thing seriously injured following this foiled hit-and-run.
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Study Finds Fracking Poses Air Pollution Health Risks, But EPA Still Denying Groundwater Impacts
Air pollutants monitored near natural gas drilling sites were measured at five times federal standards.
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Ducking Fight Over Womens' Rights, Santorum Swings Again At Environmentalists
Santorum doubles down on climate protection values.
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Midwest Coal Plants to Shut Down Sooner Than Expected: One Step Closer to a Clean Energy Future?
10 coal plants in Chicago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be shut down sooner than expected.
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4.0 Earthquake Caused by Fracking in Ohio Was Felt in Toronto
After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.
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Wolf Spiders Ate All Our Chinese Stink Bugs
The web of life is such a wonder. Following the first US landing, in Allentown PA, of a successful breeding population of Chinese Stink Bugs, US Mid-Atlantic states were swarming with the damn
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Fracking & Farming Don't Mix - Isn't It Time We Exhibited Some Precaution?
Let's take it as given that fracking is an increasingly controversial practice. So far
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Easter Beer Kale - Only The Local Will Do
Only way to make this dish is if you or a good friend grow kale two years running. It's best with a local beer that's light on the hops.
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Pennsylvania Fracking Well Blows Out, Spewing Salt Water & Drilling Fluid
Pennsylvania is where the first commercial oil well was developed - using a log cabin-style rig housing (as pictured). There were some spills and fires but the industry matured technologically, moved to Texas, and the rest is
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Pennsylvania Takes Authority Away From Oil & Gas Inspectors
Oil and gas companies are likely to face fewer violations as a result of a recent directive in Pennsylvania that essentially tells state inspectors to do their job slower.
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Philadelphia Wants to Join New York & Paris in the Park in The Sky Club
Paris has the Promenade plantée and New York has The High Line, parks created on top of once-abandoned railway tracks. Now plans are afoot in Philadelphia to transform the Reading Viaduct into what its designers are
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It's a Fracking Winter Wonderland! (Video)
A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the
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Legal Questions Over Use of Coal Ash to Fill Abandoned Mines in Pennsylvania
Still waiting for the opportunity to report some good news on coal ash, but unfortunately, that's not today. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has sent a letter to the Pennsylvania State Auditor
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Pittsburgh Bans Fracking, Eliminates Some Rights of Corporate Personhood With New Ordinance
Following in the footsteps of tiny Licking Township in taking action against fracking when the state of Pennsylvania won't, Pittsburgh has banned corporations drilling for natural gas within the city limits. As Yes!
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Take a Look at the Grassroots & Gasroots of the Fracking Fight
We've written a bunch about fracking lately--less colloquially called hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. It's an increasingly hot issue in New York and Pennsylvania as companies attempt to access the trillion dollars worth of natural gas locked up
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Pennsylvania Township Bans Fracking Wastewater Disposal - Defies State Government
Defying the state of Pennsylvania, a township has decided to take a stand against fracking and ban the disposal of
