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    FBI Begins Corruption Investigation of Another Energy Transfer Pipeline Project

    FBI Begins Corruption Investigation of Another Energy Transfer Pipeline Project

    The FBI is looking into how the state of Pennsylvania granted permits for a controversial natural gas pipeline as part of a corruption investigation, the AP reports. Sources tell the AP that the FBI is questioning current and former state employees about Governor Tom Wolf’s administration’s role in approving the Mariner East project, also owned […]

    One Pennsylvania Town Shows How to Properly ‘Zone’ Fracking

    One Pennsylvania Town Shows How to Properly ‘Zone’ Fracking

    By Peter Hart Pennsylvania is home to more than 10,000 fracking wells, which forces communities to live with air pollution, water contamination and an array of health problems linked to drilling. The frackers want to drill more wells, and the state’s Democratic governor is not going to do anything to slow it down. But local […]

    Why Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt Into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate

    Why Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt Into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate

    By Sharon Kelly The petrochemical industry anticipates spending a total of over $200 billion on factories, pipelines, and other infrastructure in the U.S. that will rely on shale gas, the American Chemistry Council announced in September. Construction is already underway at many sites. This building spree would dramatically expand the Gulf Coast’s petrochemical corridor (known […]

    Only 11% of Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas Pipelines Are Mapped for the Public

    Only 11% of Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas Pipelines Are Mapped for the Public

    Only 11 percent of the natural gas pipelines in Pennsylvania are disclosed through publicly-available maps, Pittsburgh NPR station WESA reported this week. Pipeline companies are only required to disclose transmission lines, which make up a small fraction of the commonwealth’s more than 89,000 pipelines. WESA’s report comes a week after a pipeline explosion in Beaver […]

    How Trump’s EPA Is Moving to Undo Fracking Wastewater Protections

    How Trump’s EPA Is Moving to Undo Fracking Wastewater Protections

    By Sharon Kelly Back in 2008, residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and surrounding areas received a notice in the mail advising them to drink bottled water instead of tap water—a move that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) internal memos at the time described as “one of the largest failures in U.S. history to supply clean drinking […]