To justify building an additional hazardous waste landfill, MAX petitioned to change the designation of Landfill 7’s proposed area from a 100-year floodplain.
Take Action Today: PA Senate sells out Municipal Water with SB597
Recently, the Pennsylvania Senate passed SB 597, the “Water Quality Accountability Act’. If signed into law, it would raise the cost of operations for public water authorities by implementing burdensome reporting and compliance requirements that many feel are non-essential. Under …
Mountain Pines Zoning Meeting Review and Further Call to Action
On May 11th, 2022, the Fayette Zoning Hearing Board held a public hearing to determine if Mountain Pines should be granted a special expectation to expand their campground onto the old Clifford Pritts Elementary School in Saltlick Township. Since the …
MWA Tests Nurdle Patrol Against Spill
MWA responded to buffer cars filled with nurdles careening into the water and crumpling on the riverbanks.
Community Concerned Over Proposed Mountain Pines Expansion
One of Mountain Watershed’s Association’s neighbors, Mountain Pines Campground, has recently become the center of attention in our local community. During a meeting hosted by MWA and local residents, nearly 100 people gathered both virtually and in the Saltlick Township …
Area Landfills Accept Toxic Shale Gas Waste
Shale gas development through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Western Pennsylvania has been consistent for over a decade. As the natural gas industry continues to expand, the industry is struggling to find ways to dispose of the waste they generate, like …
The Ramifications of Renewing Mariner East’s Permits
In just a few weeks – February 12 – the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) construction permits for Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipeline will expire. Mariner East is a pipeline spanning the state of Pennsylvania built for the purpose of exporting …
MWA’s Nurdle Patrols, 1-Year Later
In the water, nurdles can be mistaken for a bubble. On land, they look like a rounded quartz pebble. But unlike quartz, they float and leach toxins into the water, and unlike bubbles, they end up in the guts of …
Invenergy Gets Its Air Permit, But More Hurdles Ahead
This Tuesday, October 5, the gas-fired power plant proposed for Elizabeth Township known as Invenergy’s “Allegheny Energy Center” received its air emissions permit from the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD). Although this issuance might seem like a grim sign for …
Direct Support Funding Available for Environmental Justice Organizers
Usually, we notice and act on environmental issues close to home. Be it discolored water in our backyard creek or a petition to cut use of single-use plastics, any local action requires resources — mailer stamps, printing costs, chemical analyses, …