Environmental Glance
Bondi filed on Saturday on the three-year anniversary of the tragedy that killed 11 rig workers in the Gulf of Mexico and fouled 1,100 miles of beaches and marsh along the Gulf coast.
Fla. AG files suit against BP over 2010 spill
Sandra Steingraber, Others Get 15 Days in Jail for Civil Disobedience Against Gas Co.
Three upstate New York community members-cum-activists, charged with criminal trespass for blockading a gas company installation last month, were sentenced to 15 days in jail on Wednesday by a local judge in an upstate courthouse.
Among those sentenced was university biology professor and author Sandra Steingraber, who delivered an impassioned statement ahead of the sentencing explaining why she was compelled to civil disobedience and why she would refuse to pay the fine levied by the judge.
2nd worker dies as result of W. Virginia pipeline explosion
A second person has died as a result of injuries he suffered last week in a pipeline explosion in Tyler County.
Raymond Miller, 43, of Jeanette Pa., was one of three workers involved in the Twin Hickory explosion on April 11. A news release from the Tyler County Sheriff's Department said Miller died Monday at 5:25 p.m. at the West Penn Burn Center in Pittsburgh due to injuries suffered.
Five earthquakes hit central Oklahoma early Tuesday
Five earthquakes shook central Oklahoma early Tuesday, with the highest 4.3 magnitude quake hitting at 1:56 a.m., Central time.
The temblors began at around 1:45 a.m. near the city of Chandler, Okla., which is about 30 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, the US Geological Survey reports. An official answering the dispatch line for the Oklahoma County Sheriff's office told the Associated Press that they have received no reports of damage or injuries.
NY's Hudson Valley anti-frackers get big-name support
A new anti-fracking group is storming the Hudson Valley with support from their elected officials, scientists and health professionals. Hudson Valley United Against Fracking describes itself as a "network to amplify, build and broaden the citizens movement against fracking in this region of New York state."
The group, who has a strong ally in former congressman Maurice Hinchey — known for his strong stance on environmental protection — intends to unite the efforts of environmentalists, elected officials, health professionals, business groups and other anti-fracking groups, to focus the significant fracking opposition in the Hudson Valley.
Pennsylvania Court Deals Blow to Secrecy-Obsessed Fracking Industry
A Pennsylvania judge in the heart of the Keystone State’s fracking belt has issued a forceful and precedent-setting decision holding that there is no corporate right to privacy under that state’s constitution, giving citizens and journalists a powerful tool to understand the health and environmental impacts of natural gas drilling in their communities.
“Whether a right of privacy for businesses exists within the prenumbral rights of Pennsylvania’s constitution is a matter of first impression,” wrote Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge Debbie O’Dell Seneca late last month. “It does not.”
West Virginians deserve fracking protection, too
In my quest to find the truth, I discovered some alarming facts.
Even though there are three hydrofracking injection site wells where toxic hydrofracking waste is dumped in Sissonville (one within 400 feet of Maranatha Church, another near the former Sissonville High School), the hydrofracking injection site well located in the middle of the Sissonville gas explosion was apparently a well-kept secret. Kanawha County Commissioners and the senators and delegates in my district had no idea that there was an injection site well there.
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