URGENT: The House vote is still pending and the window to pass SB652 narrowing. It's the bill that criminalizes protest. Call your state reps to tell them to vote NO to SB 652. Then call them again. Find their contact info here.Keep calling! Talking points below. Find number of your legislator with link below, or use Earthwork's Take Action tool https://earthworks.org/take-action/pa-sb652/ It will track you to correct legislator. Call House Leadership: Mike Turzai, Speaker (7

From Middletown Coalition for Community Safety FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 10, 2018 Media contact: (484) 441-3308 or middletowncoalition@gmail.com MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, July 10, 2018— Six mothers and grandmothers blocked construction of Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline early Tuesday morning, in Middletown Township, Delaware County. Accompanied by numerous supporters, the area-residents staged a sit-in protest of the pipeline construction early Tuesday morning, re

Edited by EDGE member, video from local resident UPDATE: New violation issued today 3-19-18 (link in comments) According to ETP/Sunoco’s word it was 500 Gallons Per Minute... Everyone within 450 feet of HDD both public and private water supplies need to be notified and could be impacted... But hey as long as a PA licensed geologist reports on why it happened and how it will be managed in the future - drilling can start back up!!! https://bit.ly/2pCIYf9 ***Breaking: Another in

Update: the PUC granted the emergency shutdown. Mariner East 1 will be shut down for 10 - 14 days while Sunoco does mandatory inspections of the pipeline and attempt to fix the surrounding area. That is, unless Sunoco successfully appeals the halt, though the PUC is not quite as toothless as PA DEP. http://www.philly.com/philly/business/energy/puc-orders-sunoco-mariner-pipeline-shutdown-sinkholes-chester-county-exton-20180307.html BREAKING NEWS: the Pennsylvania Public Utilit

Photo by Keith Boyer/The Contently Foundation Court Awards $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company and Calls for Disciplinary Action Against Attorney FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mari Margil mmargil@celdf.org (503) 381-1755 MERCERSBURG, PA: Today, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued an order imposing sanctions on two attorneys defending a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance adopted by Grant Township, Pennsylvania. The Township has spent years f

Photo by Matt Rourke/AP This photo is from Governor Wolf's inauguration three years ago, when eight people were arrested for demanding a ban on fracking. We'll keep asking: Governor Wolf and the PA Legislature: how many underweight babies are worth fracking's short-term economic benefit? New, Major Evidence That Fracking Harms Human Health A child born very close to a well is likely to be smaller and less healthy than a child born farther away. Read the article from Robinson

Water Ways is a series of illustrations telling the story of how the natural gas industry impacts ecosystems, politics, communities, water, and resistance in so-called Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the surrounding area. To date. a large 13' x 10' display print is available for guided, interactive presentations and 27" x 39" posters are available for donation accompanied by a narrative booklet that will guide you through the story. Project website: https://www.thewaterways.org/

Image by Kyle Pattison for Public Herald From our friends at Public Herald: http://publicherald.org/pennsylvania-attorney-general-launches-fracking-probe-residents-call-help/ Report by Melissa A. Troutman for Public Herald: Over the past seven months, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General has received an influx of phone calls from residents alleging that officials at the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have ignored or covered up drinking water contamination, il

Father Bill, arrested October 21, 2017 for blocking access to the pipeline construction site taken by eminent domain from the Adorers of the Blood of Christ (Photo: Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record) From Lancaster Against Pipelines (We Are Lancaster County): We have kids and lives and jobs. But protecting our home is vital to us. So we're out in West Hempfield Township to stop a pipeline because our politicians, regulatory agencies and courts abandoned their constituents. We

Photo credit: Jen Deerinwater/Crushing Colonialism Ellen and Elise Gerhart at their homestead in #HuntingdonCounty, #Pennsylvania #StopETP #ResistMarinerEast #DefendWhatYouLove #StandingRock#TigerSwan #KeepItInTheGround #NoEminentDomainforPrivateGain#KnowYourRights Click here to read the full complaint: http://tinyurl.com/y8oo2vbb Huntingdon, PA - Four Pennsylvania residents filed a federal lawsuit on Monday alleging that their constitutional rights to protest were violated