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The New Freeport Fracking Incident Timeline and Updates

By Tonya Yoders | April 21, 2023

It has been almost a year since an EQT shale gas well interacted, or “communicated”, with a shallow abandoned well in New Freeport, PA. This resulted in fracking fluid spilling out and potentially getting into the water supply of residents in the area. This occurred on June 19, 2022, and it did not take long […]

Thanks To Generous Support From Our Community, Residents In New Freeport Have Clean Water For The Holidays

By Tonya Yoders | December 5, 2022

On Saturday, November 20, 2022, several members of CCJ staff helped to distribute water to residents of New Freeport who have been without safe, clean drinking water since June. This was possible because of the incredible support from all of the people who donated cases and jugs of water or who made monetary donations to […]

Remembering and Honoring a Coal Miner’s Daughter – as an Oil-and-Gas Worker’s Daughter

By Tonya Yoders | October 25, 2022

This is the 24th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Tonya Yoders. Have something on your mind? Write about it! Please read this blog for more information. Growing up in rural Appalachia, on a dirt road in a single-wide trailer, forty-five minutes from the nearest grocery store, I […]

I-70 Accidents and “Construction” over Tunnel Ridge

By Tonya Yoders | June 10, 2022

This is the 21st installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Tonya Yoders. Almost every day, I have to drive the stretch of I-70 interstate between Washington, PA and Wheeling, WV. More often than not, there are significant delays just trying to get to my destination. […]

We Need Your Help to Strengthen Protections for EJ Communities

By Tonya Yoders | April 12, 2022

This blog shows a past action about submitting comments for the draft policy of the Office of Environmental Justice.

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