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npr perpetuates a misleading distinction

Yoko Ono holds a jug of water from Ray Kemble’s kitchen tap in Montrose, Pa. Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon are fighting fracking in N.Y. Their song against fracking and fractivists’ use of the word...

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dear legislators . . .

At the fracking rally in Annapolis yesterday, some posed in the front row to form the letters of a message to legislators: ACT.//photo from Facebook page of Maryland Fracking Moratorium Now. So, we are...

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film exposes treachery of fracking

Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman talk about their film “Triple Divide” at a Butler Area Public Library screening. //photo by Michael Bagdes-Canning I drove through Pennsylvania on the turnpike...

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myersville marches on

The map shows the location of the proposed 16,000 hp compressor station in Myersville in relation to the town’s elementary school and the evacuation center at the fire station.//Information provided by...

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two kinds of trespass

Sandra Steingraber comforts her son, Elijah.//photo from Facebook page of Gas Free Seneca. Our jails overflow with people who in some cases shouldn’t be there while other criminals sit in fancy...

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out of jail and headed to UMBC

Sandra Steingraber left jail shortly after midnight Thursday.//photo by John Armstrong from Raising Elijah’s Facebook page. Sandra Steingraber was released from jail early today and will speak at UMBC...

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steingraber, the abolitionist

Sandra Steingraber signs books after her lecture at UMBC Monday afternoon. “Fracking is the DDT of our age,” biologist and writer Sandra Steingraber said Monday afternoon at a lecture at UMBC. Like...

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moving right along (on fracking)

A drilling site in Worth Township, near Slippery Rock, Pa.//photo by Mike Bagdes-Canning of Marcellus Outreach Butler. During two Mondays in April, I witnessed policymakers carefully scripting the...

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disappointed in myersville

Some of Myersville is off in the distance in this image from Frostown Road.//photo by Ann Nau Federal  regulators have denied Myersville residents a rehearing on the permit for a planned compressor...

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listen up, democratic governors

I’m holding my remake of the classic anti-war poster and waiting for the protest to start with, from left, Michael Hartman, Shaun Mathis, Liz Feighner and Ruth White. Fracking protesters mussed up a...

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how ‘best’ to frack maryland

The Youghiogheny Overlook from I-68 might some day offer a view of drilling rigs. Ready or not, best practices for fracking in Western Maryland will probably be released this week. Decidedly not ready,...

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taking the scenic out of scenic byways

Winter in unfracked Garrett County. I’m going out on a limb here: A scenic byway with a drill pad for fracking natural gas 300 feet away will no longer be scenic. A scenic or wild river 300 feet from...

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climate speech’s highs and lows

President Obama says we have to do something about this heat.//screen grab from http://www.whitehouse.gov President Obama stood in the heat today and talked for nearly an hour about climate change. He...

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white house should screen gasland part II

Josh Fox traded his Yankees cap for a Pirates cap while in the frack-free Pittsburgh. Clearly, President Obama has not seen Gasland Part II.  If he had, he would not have laid out a climate plan so...

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too close for comfort

Cows graze near Friendsville and the Frazee Ridge in northern Garrett County. Within a mile of the Maryland Youghiogheny Scenic and Wild River corridor, the Frazee Ridge area is where one of the first...

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tidier sacrifice zones

Garrett County, with no fracking.//photo by Crede Calhoun. Here are questions Western Marylanders might have to contemplate if fracking for natural gas is allowed:  If a fracked well is near our home...

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‘only’ 27 complaints

The Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project sent an alert to parents whose children had played soccer at Summit Elementary School in Butler, Pa., while flaring was underway at a well less...

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whose job is it?

Certain fossil fuel companies’ view of our communities.//Map of Marcellus Shale ‘play’ from U.S. Energy Information Administration Ann Nau, Myersville mother and compressor station opponent, recently...

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the whole fracking mess and the TPP

Super Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines as a Category 5 storm, killed thousands and caused widespread destruction, is not unrelated to fracking, the TPP, KXL, Cove Point, compressor statons and...

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our climate ‘madness’

Images of Haiyan’s destruction (above) are dreadfully similar to those of Hiroshima (below).//Haiyan photo from european pressphoto agency Today and every day, our burning of fossil fuels traps excess...

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