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EQT Landowner Town Halls Offer Some Insights

By Sarah Martik / August 26, 2019
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On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, EQT’s new CEO Toby Rice held a landowner town hall at the EQT Rec Center in Greene County. EQT holds 2/3 of the leases in Greene County – a total of approximately 220,000 acres. This was followed with a meeting at Bentworth High School’s gymnasium in Washington County on Tuesday, […]

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What to Ask Your Local Officials When a Well Pad is Too Close For Comfort

By Heaven Sensky / August 2, 2019
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The Augustine well pad in Cecil Township has raised a lot of questions for local residents, who recently built their homes where a well pad is permitted to operate, at a minimum required distance from their homes, by part of the same Board of Supervisors that oversaw the permitting of their neighborhood. The people living […]

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Join PA House Representatives Town Halls

By Veronica Coptis / August 2, 2019
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People represented by PA House Representative Puskaric (District 39) and Representative Jason Ortitay (District 46) should be aware of two upcoming public town halls recently scheduled for next week. If you are unsure what district you reside in, click here.  In addition, increasing the minimum wage is currently being debated in the state legislature and […]

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Statement on Columbia Gas Explosion in Washington, PA

By Sarah Martik / July 31, 2019
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The Center for Coalfield Justice staff, like many in the Washington area, were shocked and scared by the Columbia Gas Pipeline explosion, which destroyed one house and impacted several others, on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. We are waiting with our community to hear news about the five people injured in that explosion and sending our […]

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CCJ Organizer Attends Frontline Oil and Gas Summit led by Indigenous Leaders

By Heaven Sensky / May 24, 2019
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The Frontline Oil and Gas Summit took place May 16th through the 18th in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The conference was held in the epicenter of oil and gas development in the battleground state of Oklahoma, only miles from ConocoPhillips 66 massive refinery, and surrounded by fracking operations as far as the eye could see. The […]

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CCJ’s Response to Department of Health Determination on Washington County Cancer Cluster

By Veronica Coptis / April 23, 2019
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The Center for Coalfield Justice will continue to follow and support the community around concerns of environmental impacts on increased cancer occurrences in children following the report released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health stating that there is no apparent cancer cluster in Canon-McMillan nor Washington County. We know from our allies across the coalfields […]

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