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Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Maybe it’s the cold medicine, but, today’s Ten Post Round-Up has my head spinning: 1: Proof of progress in Iraq: Seatbelts!… As the Iraqis Buckle Up, We Will Stand Down–Bring It On! 2: Sometimes, doing...
View ArticleKathleen Kennedy Townsend: Clinton has ‘grit’ to lead
Tomorrow voters will cast their votes in the Pennsylvania primary and then it’s on to Indiana and North Carolina. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was stumping in South Bend for Hillary on Sunday. She...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Freedom from Fossil Fuels
For a few hours on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the people of southern California were scared by initial reports of an alert at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. An “alert” is the second of four...
View ArticleStories We Will Still Have to Write in 2012
by WALTER and ROSEMARY BRASCH In January 2009, with a new president about to be inaugurated, we wrote a column about the stories we preferred not having to write, but knew we would. Three years...
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FRACKING: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
by WALTER BRASCH (Part 1 of 3) A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used...
View ArticleFRACKING: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania’s Heritage
by WALTER BRASCH (part 3 of 3) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes...
View ArticleCollateral Damage in the Marcellus Shale
by WALTER BRASCH There’s nothing to suggest that in his 51 years Kevin June should be a leader. Not from his high school where he dropped out after his freshman year. Not from his job, where he...
View ArticleThe Snipers of Jersey Shore
by WALTER BRASCH Garder54 calls Kevin June “a real scum.” LadyDawg4 calls him a “sleazeball.” Proud2bMom calls him a “liar and a thief.” Kevin June is the reluctant leader for the 37 families of...
View ArticlePennsylvania Politics Continues to Trump Health and the Environment
by WALTER BRASCH Politics continues to threaten the health and welfare of Pennsylvanians. The latest is how the Republican-dominated legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett separated one of the...
View ArticleYou Can’t Wash Away Fracking’s Effects
José Lara just wanted a job. A company working in the natural gas fields needed a man to power wash wastewater tanks. Clean off the debris. Make them shining again. And so José Lara became a power...
View ArticleFracking America’s Food Supply
Fracking—the process the oil and gas industry uses to extract fossil fuel as much as two miles below the ground—may directly impact the nation’s water supply, reduce water-based recreational and sports...
View Article‘Putting People over Profits’: The Fight Against Fracking
By Walter Brasch Pennsylvanians want to put a moratorium on fracking. And it’s not just a few thousand, but a majority of the state’s residents. Pennsylvania lies in the heart of the Marcellus...
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Climate Change – is it the Indigenous Peoples who have the answers?
Peoples who have lived in the same place for countless generations – the Amazon, perhaps, or the Arctic, or in la Sierra Nevada in Colombia – possess invaluable knowledge about living with climate...
View ArticleRoyal Dutch Shell: They’ve Really Got a Friend in Pennsylvania
by Walter Brasch Royal Dutch Shell, which owns or leases about 900,000 acres in the Marcellus Shale, had a great idea. It wanted to frack the Ukraine. But, there was opposition. So, Royal Dutch Shell...
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About Those Climate Change Deniers
With a massive wild fire blazing in Yosemite right now, and tropical storm season heading our way, it’s time to have the Climate Change conversation yet again. It seems simple to those of us who get...
View ArticleTom Corbett’s Sizzle has Fizzled
by Walter Brasch With his popularity about the same as a hairy wart, Gov. Tom Corbett (R-Pa.) had to make some critical changes in his administration if he has any hope of winning a second term in...
View ArticleJumping Aboard Fracking’s Fossil Fuel Carousel
by Walter Brasch Two Pennsylvania legislators who have taken money from—and enthusiastically supported—the natural gas industry have teamed up to now praise coal. State Sen. Gene Yaw...
View ArticleNo Area Safe From Fracking
by Walter Brasch At the time New Jersey established a ban on fracking, it seemed symbolic, much like the moratorium in Vermont, which has no economically recoverable natural gas; the Marcellus Shale,...
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Time to Re-Think Pork?
Photograph by Travis Rathbone for Bloomberg Businessweek Doesn’t that pork chop look yummy? Personally, I’m a big fan of pork tenderloin, because there’s so much you can do with it. One of my favorite...
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Epic Snowy Owl Migration Causes Airport Woes
Snowy Owl on Haystack in Newbury, MA ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2013 Birders are rejoicing this year as Snowy Owls flock south for the winter in epic numbers. I am about to enter into my 3rd year of amateur...
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