Oil and gas front group fails to read fine print on climate pollution…again

6 years 7 months ago
Last week, EDF released a new analysis, based on current, peer-reviewed science, that estimates methane emissions from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas sites are nearly five times higher than what industry reports to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. If you look strictly at emissions from unconventional well sites – emissions are twice as high as […]
David Lyon

Oil and gas front group fails to read fine print on climate pollution…again

6 years 7 months ago

Last week, EDF released a new analysis, based on current, peer-reviewed science, that estimates methane emissions from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas sites are nearly five times higher than what industry reports to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. If you look strictly at emissions from unconventional well sites – emissions are twice as high as […]

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David Lyon

Oil and gas front group fails to read fine print on climate pollution…again

6 years 7 months ago
Last week, EDF released a new analysis, based on current, peer-reviewed science, that estimates methane emissions from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas sites are nearly five times higher than what industry reports to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. If you look strictly at emissions from unconventional well sites – emissions are twice as high as […]
David Lyon

Oil and gas front group fails to read fine print on climate pollution…again

6 years 7 months ago
Last week, EDF released a new analysis, based on current, peer-reviewed science, that estimates methane emissions from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas sites are nearly five times higher than what industry reports to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. If you look strictly at emissions from unconventional well sites – emissions are twice as high as […]
David Lyon

Mayors across the country announce their opposition to repealing the Clean Power Plan

6 years 7 months ago
(EDF’s John Bullock co-authored this post) 236 U.S. Mayors just added their voices to the growing chorus that opposes rolling back the Clean Power Plan. The mayors represent more than 51 million Americans from 46 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. They just sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt saying: “[W]e […]
Martha Roberts

Winning Climate Change with Women

6 years 7 months ago

Written by Marcia G. Yerman

“Women in the United States and around the world are the linchpin of families and communities and are often the first to feel the immediate and adverse effects of social, environmental, and economic stresses on their families and communities.”  When Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced...

Marcia G. Yerman