SHELL ETHANE CRACKER PLANT — Excess Air Pollution as VOCs & GHGs

November 25, 2022

A New Shell Plant in Pennsylvania Will Soon Become the State’s Second Largest Emitter of Volatile Organic Chemicals From an Article by Reid Frazier, StateImpact Pennsylvania, October 16, 2022 Shell’s ethane cracker is scheduled to come online this fall producing up to 1.6 million metric tons of plastic pellets a year. The plant will produce [...]

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BITCOIN Collapse Creating Overtones and Bankruptcy Proceedings

November 24, 2022

After the FTX crash, here’s what you need to know – the crypto bubble is already bursting From an Article by Carol Alexander, The Guardian UK, 11/23/22 Following the bankruptcy of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, the price of bitcoin (BTC) has tumbled again. It is now about $16,500 – a far [...]

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LIVING ON EARTH (loe.org) ~ Renewed Diet for a Small Planet

November 23, 2022

PLANT and PLANET-CENTERED EATING in 2022 From the Broadcast & Transcript of Steve Curwood, Living on Earth, Nov. 18, 2022 Our global food system feeds environmental crises like global warming and water pollution even as it fails to adequately feed billions of people worldwide. So in the 50th anniversary edition of “Diet for a Small [...]

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Tracking Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) in the Marcellus Region

November 22, 2022

How Shell’s New Steam Cracker Is (And Isn’t) Impacting Northeast NGL Markets From the Blog of Housley Carr at RBN Energy, November 20, 2022 As we said in our Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More and Only Time Will (Sh)ell blogs six years ago, Shell received strong local support for its Shell Polymers Monaca project in [...]

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WVU Business Bureau Describes Taxes from Natural Gas Production

November 21, 2022

Interim Report: WV Joint Committee on Natural Gas Development From an Article by Christopher Marshall, WV Legislative Blog, November 15, 2022 Members of the Joint Committee on Natural Gas Development listened to a presentation from John Deskins, director of the Bureau of Business & Economic Research at West Virginia University, during the second day of [...]

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Frack Fluid Spill$ in Greene County Result in Penna. Fine$

November 20, 2022

CNX fined $200K for spills of fracking fluids in Greene County, Penna. From an Article by Reid Frazier, Allegheny Front, November 17, 2022 The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined the natural gas drilling company CNX some $200,000 for spilling natural gas production fluids at well sites in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The spills took [...]

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UNITED NATIONS ~ COP#27: Compensation for Climate Change Damages?

November 19, 2022

11th-hour Deal Comes Together as the U.S. Reverses Course on ‘Loss and Damage’ From an Article by Bob Berwyn and Zoha Tunio, Inside Climate News, Nov. 19, 2022 SHARM El-SHEIKH, Egypt—A new COP27 agreement that establishes a funding mechanism to compensate developing countries for losses and damages caused by global warming may be the biggest [...]

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UNITED NATIONS ~ Conference of the Parties #27 (COP27: Two weeks ending 11/18/22)

November 18, 2022
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WV CLIMATE TIME CAPSULE at Marshall University Until EARTH DAY 2050

November 17, 2022

WV Climate Time Capsule, WV Environmental Council, Newsletter Volume 32, Number 10 By Nyoka Baker Chapman, League of Women Voters of West Virginia, May 2, 2022 The WV Climate Time Capsule began as a contributing activity by the League of Women Voters of West Virginia (LWVWV) to a climate rally sponsored by the WV Climate [...]

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U.S. Forest Service to Prepare a New “Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for MVP

November 16, 2022

From: Joby Timm, US Forest Service, Nov 16, 2022 . . Subject: Mountain Valley Pipeline Notice of Intent Pre-notification for New SEIS . . Good Afternoon, I am reaching out to key partners of the George Washington & Jefferson National Forests to advise you of the next steps in the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. [...]

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