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  • Families Get $4 Million For Fracking Water Contamination

    In March, a fed­er­al jury award­ed a total of $4.2 mil­lion to two fam­i­lies from Dimock, Penn­syl­va­nia whose drink­ing water wells have been con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed by Cabot Oil and Gas when drilling for nat­ur­al gas. “It’s been a bat­tle,” said plain­tiff Scott Ely, co-plain­tiff with Ray Hubert, in a law­suit against Cabot filed in 2009. “You’re up…

  • Constitution Pipeline Permit Denied

    - April 22, 2016, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network On April 22, the New York Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion refused to issue a water qual­i­ty per­mit for the Con­sti­tu­tion Pipeline, a 124 mile pipeline that would’ve car­ried nat­ur­al gas from the Mar­cel­lus shale in Penn­syl­va­nia to New York State.   Accom­pa­nied by heav­i­ly armed U.S. Mar­shals wear­ing bul­let­proof vests, a Con­sti­tu­tion Pipeline…

  • Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign Beyond its Shortcomings

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­workOcto­ber 2014 Some­times, envi­ron­men­tal move­ment cam­paigns that become very pop­u­lar aren’t the ones that are the most strate­gic. Try­ing to divert the fos­sil fuel divest­ment band­wag­on to a bet­ter path hasn’t been easy (or well-received), but some crit­i­cal exam­i­na­tion is long overdue. As activists like to point out, we don’t have…