by Nelson Bailey | Feb 14, 2017 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety
ABS-CBN News Posted at Feb 14 2017 01:53 PM | Updated as of Feb 14 2017 02:05 PM MANILA – Environment Secretary Gina Lopez said Tuesday she served notice to operators of dozens of mines, asking them to explain why their permits should not be canceled for...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 13, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Vehicles and a power pole smoke next to a fire at the Phillips 66 pipeline in Paradis, La. Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP) PARADIS, La. – One worker was missing and two were injured after an explosion sparked a fire at a Louisiana pipeline Thursday night, officials...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Health & Safety
How is this related to our focus on the pipeline? With fossil fuel infrastructure comes extensive health and safety concerns. With our health care compromised, well, the problems compound… Virginia Organizing, our umbrella organization, asked us to post this to...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 18, 2016 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Environmental groups are voicing opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cut across the Appalachian Trail in Virginia and require clearing a previously protected corridor of forest. The Mountain Valley Pipeline would transport natural gas from...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 17, 2016 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety, Pollution - Other Sources
DALLAS — A chemical leak from an asphalt plant that led Corpus Christi officials to warn residents this week not to drink the water was apparently reported a week earlier, according to an email from a state environmental official that was obtained Friday. The internal...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 16, 2016 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy, Pollution - Other Sources
PORTLAND, Ore. — Communities throughout the Northwest are rejecting fossil-fuel infrastructures, and on Wednesday, Portland went a step further by approving a new zoning rule banning large, fossil-fuel terminals from coming to the city. Dan Serres, conservation...
