Join our team! We are currently accepting resumes for a full-time Community Advocate. Applicants must possess a Juris Doctorate Degree with a certificate or experience in environmental law, be enthusiastic and motivated self-starters, and be outgoing and able to work …
People volunteering with our Marcellus Citizen Stewardship Project (MCSP) are ‘ground truth’ sleuths…or aspiring ones anyway. What is ground truth? It’s a phrase used to describe “the reality of a tactical situation as opposed to what intelligence reports and mission …
Rather than a “bridge fuel” that may help us transition to a renewable energy future, some scientists argue that deep shale natural gas, now accessible using high volume, slickwater, horizontal “fracking,” is actually a “bridge to nowhere.” After billions of …
Several years ago LCT Energy submitted a Notice of Intent to Explore (NOI) to the PA Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) for an underground mine in the Donegal & Saltlick areas of the Indian Creek watershed– an area often referred …
“Energy independence.” “Family-sustaining jobs.” “Transition to renewable energy.” – These have been the promises made to residents in shale states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Maryland, and West Virginia since the ‘fracking boom’ came to the northeastern United States several …
Over the weekend I attended the Water and Wellness Conference hosted by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Doddridge County Watershed Association, and West Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club in Buckhannon, West Virginia. I started my journey to the conference …
We just wrapped up our first Grassroots Summit, designed to bring together citizen and community leaders working on shale gas issues across the region. The summit was held this past weekend at the McKeever Environmental Learning Center in Sandy Lake, …
