Oil & Gas Pollution on Pennsylvania Public Lands

October 29, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

All of Pennsylvania’s oil and gas facilities–whether unconventional (aka “fracked”) or conventional, and uncounted abandoned wells–have the potential to emit both methane that harms the climate and toxic air pollutants that impact air quality and harm health. Earthworks’ investigations of oil and gas development in Pennsylvania’s State and National Forests shows that the industry benefits from weak regulations and limited enforcement, allowing them to emit serious pollution and present other problems that degrade our public lands.

How the Greenland Ice Melt Will Expose Buried US Nuclear Waste Within Decades

September 19, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

The melting of Greenland’s ice cap is set to expose Camp Century, a US military base that hid a top-secret project along with its nuclear and other toxic waste. It was meant to be buried forever – entombed in ice.

Big Copper and Gold Mine Near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Q&A with EarthTalk

August 24, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

What’s the background of the controversy over whether to allow development of a big copper and gold mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay?–C. Karo, Pittsburgh, PA Environmentalists, fishermen and Native Americans breathed a sigh of relief in 2014 when the Obama administration invoked a rarely used provision in the Clean Water Act to block the proposed…

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