Posted by Amy Mall in Health and the Environment
Pennsylvania. My dad was born and raised there. He also retired there, to a magnificent landscape just south of Lake Nockamixon among the rolling green hills, old stone houses, and bucolic countryside of the serene Delaware River Valley. North of the...continued→
Posted by Amy Mall in Health and the Environment
I've written before about hydraulic fracturing--an oil and gas production technique that involves the injection of fluids, often containing toxic chemicals, into oil or gas wells at very high pressure. Although the Safe Drinking Water Act regulates most forms of...continued→
Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil
Earlier today, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. During the hearing she was asked about the risk to drinking water safety posed by the practice...continued→
