‘Bridge to Climate Chaos’: New Report Details Urgent Need for Total US Fracking Ban | Common Dreams News

“Unless we ban fracking, these terrifying climate trends will intensify.”

Source: ‘Bridge to Climate Chaos’: New Report Details Urgent Need for Total US Fracking Ban | Common Dreams News

Judge Fails to Block Dakota Pipeline Construction After Burial Sites Destroyed | InsideClimate News

Protesters had called for an emergency injunction after the pipeline company worked over Labor Day weekend to bulldoze sites the Standing Rock Sioux consider sacred.

Source: Judge Fails to Block Dakota Pipeline Construction After Burial Sites Destroyed | InsideClimate News

Onondagas Hold Prayer Circle in Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux On Shores of Polluted Onondaga Lake

LIVERPOOL, NY. Over 60 people joined Onondaga Nation leaders at the shores of Onondaga Lake this morning to conduct a prayer circle in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and members of …

Source: Onondagas Hold Prayer Circle in Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux On Shores of Polluted Onondaga Lake

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Calls for Investigation of Dog Attacks on Native American Protesters | Daily Digest 09/06/2016

Source: Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Calls for Investigation of Dog Attacks on Native American Protesters | Daily Digest 09/06/2016

Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources | EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) | US EPA

Source: Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources | EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) | US EPA

WATER POLLUTION: Federal agency contradicts EPA on contamination in Dimock — Thursday, May 26, 2016 — www.eenews.net

When U.S. EPA ended its investigation of drilling and drinking water contamination in Dimock, Pa., the agency said the water was safe to drink. Now, another federal agency looking at the same data says it wasn’t safe.

Source: WATER POLLUTION: Federal agency contradicts EPA on contamination in Dimock — Thursday, May 26, 2016 — www.eenews.net

Video: insight 5/24/13 | Watch Insight Online | WCNY Public Media Video

Gas Controversy on the Shores of Seneca Lake

Source: Video: insight 5/24/13 | Watch Insight Online | WCNY Public Media Video

Gov. Cuomo Rejects the Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win for the Anti-Fracking Movement

In a win for climate activists and the anti-fracking movement, the New York DEC denied a permit to companies seeking to build the Constitution Pipeline Proj

Source: Gov. Cuomo Rejects the Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win for the Anti-Fracking Movement

A federal jury found that Cabot Oil & Gas company was responsible for contaminating two couples’ wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania. We spoke with co-counsels for the plaintiffs Leslie Lewis and Elisabeth Radow about the Dimock, PA water contamination case.

A federal jury found that Cabot Oil & Gas company was responsible for contaminating two couples’ wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania. We spoke with co-counsels for the plaintiffs Leslie Lewis and Elisabeth Radow about the case.

 

Ashley Hupfl, a reporter with City & State, shared this week’s Winners and Losers. Bill Mahoney of Politico NY joined Susan and Ashley for a reporter

Source: March 11, 2016: Ashley Hupfl, Bill Mahoney, Michael Borges, Elisabeth Radow and Leslie Lewis, David Gibson | Member Supported Public Television, Radio |WCNY

Deadly-Crossing-Web-Version.pdf

Source: Deadly-Crossing-Web-Version.pdf

25 million Americans live within one mile of a bomb train route. Are you one of them?

As you read this, train cars are crisscrossing the nation carrying a highly volatile form of crude oil. Known as “bomb trains,” these cars have a history of devastating explosions – threatening lives and waterways – when involved in any kind of an accident.

Our report, Deadly Crossing: Neglected Bridges & Exploding Oil Trains, details the danger. The report includes the findings of a grassroots network of advocates who conducted inspections across the United States and identified significant areas of concern with 114 railway bridges along known and potential routes of explosive oil trains.

What they found should alarm us all.

The condition of our nation’s rail infrastructure is dismal. And, according to a study by our report partners, ForestEthics, it threatens the lives of more than 25 million Americans who live within one mile of an oil train route, known as the bomb train blast zone. You may be one of them.

Help us take the findings of this new report to the federal government and demand that bomb trains stop endangering lives and waterways.