Tag: Department of Environmental Protection
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Permit-less Sabal Trail pipeline risked by new sinkhole
Live Oak, FL, October 5, 2017 — Sabal Trail, operating without a permit, is at risk from a new sinkhole within 60 feet of its 36-inch diameter, high-pressure, fracked methane pipe under Suwannee River State Park (SRSP), between the Suwannee River and the drill site in Hamilton County. Such sinkholes are among the geological risks…
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EPA researching freshwater mussels as biofilters in PA, MD and WV
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced a new project to develop innovative methods to improve our understanding of the distribution of freshwater mussels. In a news release, the agency said: EPA will partner with the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in…
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Pennsylvania DEP staffers warned superiors of dangers to private water wells from pipeline construction
A Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection official waved a red flag to higher ups in January over potential issues with Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline construction on private water wells. “Though we don’t regulate it, this private well issue has the potential to really blow up…,” wrote Domenic Rocco, waterways and wetlands program manager for…
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Lawsuit accuses Range Resources and lab of doctoring water test results
This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas was underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, PA. A water testing company that worked with Range Resources to evaluate whether or not…
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Florida Well Salinity Study
See link below to full original article by WWALS Watershed Coalition (Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®) See link below to full original article by WWALS Watershed Coalition (Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®) Update 2017-05-18: Salt water intrusion inland is worse than you think, including the “Apalachicola salinity feature” up to the GA-FL line and east through Lowndes County, with a special…
