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Groups to sue EPA in effort to better regulate disposal of fracking waste
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Don Hopey on August 26th, 2015
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Eight environmental organizations announced today they intend to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to set new and tighter standards for disposal of oil and gas drilling and fracking waste that they say threatens public health and the environment.
The groups, in a notice of intent to sue filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., allege that the EPA has failed for 27 years to update and tighten baseline drilling and waste disposal regulations, as required by the Resource...
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Fracking companies, environmentalists and philanthropies join forces
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Don Hopey on March 20th, 2013
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A first-of-its-kind effort to set cleaner shale gas development standards and reduce the industry's air and water impacts was launched today by a consortium of gas drilling companies, environmental groups and philanthropic foundations in Pittsburgh.
The new Center for Sustainable Shale Development is a collaborative attempt to reduce the environmental risks and improve the performance of companies working in all phases of Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale development by setting higher performance...
Penn. State Rep. Calls for Probe of DEP Water Testing Reports
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Don Hopey on November 2nd, 2012
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has created incomplete lab reports and used them to dismiss complaints that Marcellus Shale gas development operations have contaminated residential water supplies and made people sick, according to court documents and other sources.
As a result, state Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, today called on state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the DEP for "alleged misconduct and fraud" described in sworn depositions in a civil case...