Editor’s Note: This post is Steve Horn’s latest investigative piece on the intimate relationships between higher education and the fracking industry. It originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love - visit their…
Fracking—the process the oil and gas industry uses to extract fossil fuel as much as two miles below the ground—may directly impact the nation’s water supply, reduce water-based recreational and sports activity, and lead to an increase in the cost…
David M. Jacobson wanted a transcript of a public hearing conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), May 2. The public meeting was to allow persons to discuss a proposal by National Gypsum and EnTire Logistics to build…
Yesterday afternoon, news came out of Northumberland County that Minuteman Environmental Services – a waste hauling company associated with the natural gas industry – was raided by a slew of state and federal agencies. These agencies include the IRS, FBI,…
Philly.com, the media outlet that publishes storied from the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has just announced that Governor Tom Corbett will become a contributor for the media outlet. The article titled “Philly.com aanounces Gov. Tom Corbett joins…
In a letter to the editor published in the Reading Eagle on Wednesday, Kutztown student and president-elect of the Student Government Board, Nick Imbesi, made the following appeal: The negative media coverage of Kutztown University must end. The media day in and…
Faculty members at East Stroudsburg University learned yesterday that some of them may not have jobs in the near future. ESU administrators dropped the bomb at a meeting between the university administration and representatives of the ESU chapter of the…
This past week, Kutztown students, faculty and staff were first learning of the university’s new weapons policy which opens the campus to guns. The new policy, according to the Morning Call, will give ”Kutztown more gun freedom than most of the state-owned…
Editor’s Note: After a friend emailed him Raging Chicken Press’s story, “Welcome to Wild West U,” Alan Magee sent us this video to post. He says, “ I made it shortly after the Newtown shootings as a response to NRA efforts to use the tragedy to increase the spread of guns.” And now that we have learned that PA Gov. Tom Corbett directed state universities to open their campuses to guns, we have more organizing to do.
Gun Shop from Alan Magee on Vimeo.
After Governor Corbett’s drug use statement that scapegoats the unemployed in our Commonwealth, the governor’s henchmen are coming out in full force to back up this misinformed claim. As you already know, Governor Corbett went on the PAMatters.com radio program…
