Local reverend reviews fracking movie
UNDATED – A recently released movie may have many celebrities in it, but it is not so much movie magic as real life. Promised Land was filmed mainly in the Pittsburgh area and tells the story of a...
View ArticleGeisinger breaks silence with AP: Doc says money needed for Geisinger Study
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A health study cited by leading environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as pivotal in helping persuade Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hold off on plans for a limited fracking pilot program is...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A Philadelphia jury is set to hear closing arguments today (Monday) in the capital murder trial of an abortion doctor accused of killing babies born alive. Prosecutors say...
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BEAVER, Pa. (AP) – A judge says a western Pennsylvania sheriff accused of threatening to cut a political campaign worker’s hands off and shoot an online news reporter should go to trial. Judge...
View ArticleLocal author releases book on fracking
SUNBURY – “The natural gas boom is a bust,” so says a local retired journalism professor. Dr. Walter Brasch has released a new book; Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster. Brasch said he...
View ArticleDOE study: Fracking didn’t taint water
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water at a...
View ArticleWorkshop to focus on Susquehanna River
SELINSGROVE – What is the ‘state’ of the Susquehanna River? How do you make a rain barrel? And, what exactly does the fracking process involve? Those are questions that will be answered Saturday at...
View ArticleTaskforce pushes for environmental law quality
UNDATED – A local group of Lutherans has taken action against oil and gas companies who are immune to certain environmental laws. Reverend Dr. Leah Schade of the Upper Susquehanna Synod Assembly of...
View ArticleLocal prof explains NY fracking ban
UNDATED — As the natural gas industry has been providing thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania, New York has officially decided to ban fracking. Dr. Walter Brasch is an emeritus professor of Journalism at...
View ArticleSeverance tax proposal questioned
UNDATED – Governor Tom Wolf’s proposal to raise energy taxes could threaten Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry — that is the position of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, responding to Wolf’s budget talk...
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