by Nelson Bailey | Nov 11, 2016 | Climate Change, Endangered Species, Health & Safety
Pretty Much Every Living Thing Is Already Feeling The Effects Of Climate Change | The Huffington Post Climate change has already touched almost all life on the planet, even under moderate rates of global warming, according to a report published Thursday in the journal...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 10, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Health & Safety
By: Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) November 07 2016 As Virginia faced new fracking interest in recent years, the state’s oil and gas protections lagged far behind other states. Communities across the state worked with SELC and other stakeholders to address...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2016 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Briefly – WSJ A major fuel artery connecting refineries on the Gulf Coast to airports and gas stations on the East Coast was closed Monday, sending gasoline prices surging higher. Equipment being used by a work crew struck one of the lines in Shelby County,...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 26, 2016 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
On June 10, 1999, a few days after his high school graduation, Liam Wood unexpectedly got an afternoon off work and decided to go fly-fishing on a creek near his hometown of Bellingham, Washington. About 100 miles away, operators missed the signs of a pressure spike...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 23, 2016 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Human Rights Abuses Escalate at DAPL Prayer Services in North Dakota | Huffington Post “It makes me so sad. I want to feel like what we have been fighting for over the past hundred years is our dignity and that we as Indigenous people will be accorded full human...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 23, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
Statewide poll results released today show that, on the hot-button issues of fracked-gas pipelines and coal ash disposal, Virginia voters disagree with the approach being taken by Governor Terry McAuliffe by significant, bipartisan margins. The results of the poll,...
