That Terrifies Me : Trump Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport By Rail In Dense Areas
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Vanessa Keegan, her boyfriend and 3-year-old son live a block from where rail cars will carry liquefied natural gas to an export facility on the Delaware River.
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In an effort to boost natural gas exports, the Trump administration has reversed longstanding federal policy and approved transport of gas by rail anywhere in the country. Opposition has come from Hollywood stars, state attorneys general and local residents who worry about the danger this poses. But plans are moving ahead for a New Jersey project that calls for one of the longest such transport routes in the country: 200 miles through densely populated areas of the East Coast.
Environmental Protection Agency
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied an attempt from the Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, over the implementation of a specific tenet of the Clean Water Act.
On June 1, the EPA issued a
Final Rule which largely changed its regulations in implementing Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, also published in the Federal Register on July 13.
Section 401 of the Clean Water Act gives each state and Native American tribe an important but limited say in the licensing of federal projects that could affect water quality.
Per the section in question, federal agencies cannot license activities that may result in a discharge into waters of the United States, until the state whose waters would be affected by the discharge certifies that the activity will comply with applicable water-quality requirements or waives the Section 401 requirement, either affirmatively or th
December 16, 2020 by Jessica R. Towhey
A liquid natural gas facility near Philadelphia got the go-ahead from a federal agency, resulting in a big thumbs-down from some very famous environmental activists.
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The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) recently approved a construction permit for the Gibbstown Logistics Center in Gloucester County, NJ, which will be capable of handling exports of liquified natural gas. The project from New Fortress Energy involves transporting the gas from the Marcellus Shale across Pennsylvania to the terminal using 100-car trains that activists have called bomb trains.
Pennsylvania State Sen. Katie Muth, who represents Philadelphia s suburbs, likened the trains to the energy of the Hiroshima bomb in a tweet opposing the project.
MARPLEÂ â Township commissioners unanimously rejected the Village at Sproul Road preliminary plan for the former Don Guanella site and in doing so saved some of their most critical comments for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Clearly, this is a windfall for the archdiocese, Commisioner Michael Molinaro, a practicing Catholic, said. (They) never have paid anything to our township. We ve been nothing but good to them . And, what do they do? They keep marketing this property to developers. This is a total win-win for a developer and a total lose-lose for our township, for our county, for our state and for our country. It s gotta stop. There s other places to do what you want to do.
Credit: (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) is “deeply concerned” about possible links between PFAS and COVID-19.
A public health expert urged people not to jump to conclusions about any links between COVID-19 and PFAS “forever chemicals” even though federal authorities are looking into whether newly available vaccines for the deadly virus are made less effective by the toxic chemicals in the bloodstream.
Dr. Robert Laumbach, a professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, said there’s no proven link between the virus and the chemicals despite studies that show the efficacy of some other vaccines is reduced by the presence of blood-borne PFAS. Scientists say almost everyone has the chemicals in their blood because of the widespread and persistent presence of the chemicals in water and soil.