The Associated Press reports on an effort by Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R -Jefferson) to create a 13-member advisory panel to examine the health impacts of natural gas drilling. According to the AP, the bill is in committee, and its future is uncertain: Patrick Henderson, Gov. Tom Corbett’s energy executive, wrote in an [...]
Why didn’t anyone invite the state Department of Health to a hearing at the capitol today about the environmental and health impacts of natural gas drilling? Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a professor emeritus with the University of Pittsburgh, says it’s because the state hasn’t given the agency the regulatory role it deserves. “There is basically nothing [...]
When House Democrat Mike Sturla defended his comment about natural gas drillers spreading STDs among Pennsylvania’s “womenfolk,” he pointed to a presentation a Bradford County community hospital delivered to Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in May. The Troy Community Hospital report did reference “an increase in sexually transmitted diseases,” in the years since drilling [...]
Don’t worry – this story isn’t as scary as the headline makes it out to be. State officials are distributing potassium iodide pills to people who live within ten miles of Pennsylvania’s five nuclear power plants tomorrow. The Harrisburg Patriot-News and York Daily Record have more on where you can pick the free tablets up. [...]
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