Posted April 26, 2012 by Daniel Raichel in Health and the Environment
Although a recent court order has prevented the portions of Pennsylvania’s new Act 13 poised to obliterate most local zoning authority over fracking from taking effect until next winter, you wouldn’t know it by the way one fracking company, Chesapeake...continued→
Posted April 12, 2012 by Daniel Raichel in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
Yesterday, Senior Judge Keith Quigley issued an order that prevents those portions of Pennsylvania's new Act 13 eviscerating local zoning authority from taking effect as originally scheduled under the Act. As previously blogged about, Act 13 is a new Pennsylvania law which represents a...continued→
Posted March 31, 2012 by Daniel Raichel in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
On Thursday, seven municipalities (the Townships of Robinson, Nockamixon, South Fayette, Peters, Cecil, Mount Pleasant Township, and the Borough of Yardley Bucks County), along with the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and a local physician, filed suit in the Commonwealth Court of...continued→
Posted February 22, 2012 by Daniel Raichel in Environmental Justice, U.S. Law and Policy
Yesterday, a Tompkins County Judge delivered a decisive victory for the town of Dryden and municipalities statewide by upholding the town’s recently passed zoning ordinance banning fracking anywhere within its borders against a challenge by a Colorado drilling company (see...continued→
Posted February 9, 2012 by Daniel Raichel in Environmental Justice
It looks like the worst in Pennsylvania has come to pass. Despite a letter by nine GOP state senators two weeks ago pledging “opposition to language [in a Pennsylvania bill] that removes a local municipality’s ability to regulate and control...continued→
Posted January 31, 2012 by Daniel Raichel in Curbing Pollution
Just a few short months ago, the prognosis for the longstanding right of Pennsylvania municipalities to protect the health and property of their residents from fracking activities, or indeed any oil or gas drilling, looked pretty grim. That’s because two...continued→
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