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From Alaska to Florida, 21 Attorneys General Join Fight to Halt Chesapeake Bay Cleanup

Tue, 2014-02-18 22:58 — Kathy Gilbeaux

A waning crescent moon hangs over the Chesapeake Bay just before sunrise in North Beach, Md. Twenty one states are challenging the Obama administration's plan to clean up the bay. (Ray K. Saunders / The Washington Post)

washingtonpost.com - by Darryl Fears - February 5, 2014

Attorneys general in 21 states are backing an attempt to derail the Obama administration’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan, fearing that the government will use that authority to regulate wastewater in other watersheds, including the Mississippi River Basin.

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Economic and Population Issues in Somerset County, Maryland and the Broader Eastern Shore

Sun, 2014-02-02 09:08 — mdmcdonald

The town of Crisfield was impacted heavily by Superstorm Sandy. Going into its second year after Sandy's landfall, only one third of the houses impacted in Crisfield (the most heavily impacted town on the Eastern Shore) have been restored. Infrastructure remains fragile and the economy, although temporarily improved to some degree by modest recovery funds, continues in a fragile state under long-term decline. Overall, Crisfield's population continues in a long-term decline after being the second most prosperous city in Maryland during the late 1800s and early 1900s, before its fisheries largely collapsed with the decline in the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem.

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Tim DeChristopher: 'We Have to Be the Carbon Tax'

Fri, 2013-11-08 22:50 — Gina Angiola

By Peter Rugh, Waging Nonviolence,07 November 13 - Reader Supported News

f you walk along Manhattan's West Side Highway, upon the long strip of bike lanes and greenery between the Hudson River and the droning automobiles, you'll come to a fresh patch of pavement that's a stone's throw away from the Pier 51 Playground. You can't tell by the look of it, but beneath the new asphalt hundreds of millions of cubic feet-worth of natural gas are flowing.

While the national climate movement has focused on the transnational Keystone XL pipeline, this tiny site has been the object of a more-than-two-year local battle over the first natural gas pipeline to enter New York City in 40 years. Objecting to the high radon content of the fracked gas and the risk of explosion this pipeline carries, my friends and I waged a campaign of legal challenges and protests against its operator, Spectra Energy Corporation.

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Information about Pipelines in states of U.S.

Sat, 2013-11-02 22:28 — Gina Angiola

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http://projects.propublica.org/pipelines/

http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/States.htm?nocache=2656

http://phmsa.dot.gov/incident-report

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New Website Launched for the Marcellus Shale Public Health Study

Fri, 2013-10-18 17:04 — Gina Angiola

VISIT WEBSITE FOR A WEALTH OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HERE

Overview of the Public Health Study

On June 6, 2011, Governor O'Malley issued Executive Order (E.O.) 01.01.2011.11, which established the Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative. The purpose of the Initiative is to assist regulators in determining whether and how gas production from the Marcellus Shale and other shale formations in Maryland can be accomplished without unacceptable risks of adverse impacts to public health, safety, the environment, and natural resources.

The purpose of the Marcellus Shale Public Health Study is to evaluate the potential public health impacts associated with drilling in the Marcellus Shale in Maryland. The study will include:

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