Delaware River

The Importance of Trees

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya K. Van Rossum, Maria Rodale, Delaware River, Trees, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Green News
Maria Rodale

by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper "Trees are dirty and they take my open space." Those were the complaints of a homeowne...

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What Americans Get from Fracking

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Frack, Hydro Fracking, The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maria Rodale, Facking Chemicals, Delaware River, Fracking Water, Fracking, Maya K. Van Rossum, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Marcellus Shale, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Green News
Maria Rodale

by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper Americans get a lot out of the new technological process called hydrofracking (fracki...

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How Small Business Owners Make Decisions

Gene Marks | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Mo Vaughn, Delaware River, Obama, Small Business, Plesac, Dredging, Budget, Small Business America, Small Business News
Gene Marks

Wouldn't it be great if small business owners had facts and stats whenever we needed to make a critical investment decision? Wouldn't it be great if every decision came down to a mathematical exercise, a simple calculation of return on investment without any other factors needing to be considered?

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Tell President Obama:
Don't Deepen the Delaware

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maria Rodale, Delaware River, Corps of Engineers, Deepening the Delaware, Maya K. Van Rossum, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Green News
Maria Rodale

by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper For more than 20 years, my organization, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, and I have ...

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Occupying the Delaware: Fractivists Call for Responsive Governance

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Governor Markell, Josh Fox, Governor Cuomo, Mark Ruffalo, Fracking, Delware River Basin, Alison Rose Levy, Gasland, Governor Chris Christie, Hydrofracking, Delaware River, Hydraulic Fracturing, Gas Drilling, Green News
Alison Rose Levy

According to a recent Forbes magazine article, Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Gas, and the chief proponent for fracking, consumes $20,000 bo...

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When Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: T. Boone Pickens, Delaware River, Laurence Fishburne, Fracking, West Virginia, Ohio, Gasland, Gas Drilling, NAT GAS Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Colorado, Wyoming, Csi, New York, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Dick Cheney, Virginia, Texas, Epa, FRAC Act, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, Halliburton Loophole, Louisiana, Water, Arkansas, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydrofracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Drinking Water, Michigan, Maryland, Green News
Mark Ruffalo

The only way we're going to defeat the gas industry and protect our water is if people become informed about its dangerous ongoing practices on a massive scale.

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Taking on Karl Rove

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chief Oil & Gas, Fracking, Maryland, West Virginia, Colorado, Safe Drinking Water Act, Marcellus Shale, Clean Water Act, Dick Cheney, Virginia, Ohio, Hydrofracking, Colorado River, Delaware River, Karl Rove, T. Boone Pickens, Louisiana, Gas Drilling, NAT GAS Act, Texas, Pennsylvania, Citizens United, Clean Air Act, New York, Epa, FRAC Act, Maurice Hinchey, Midterm Elections, Halliburton Loophole, Michigan, Water, Wyoming, Arkansas, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Drinking Water, American Rossroads, Gasland, Politics News
Mark Ruffalo

2010-11-01-frackingflame.jpg Congressman Maurice Hinchey is right to ask questions of gas companies that want to begin using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from deep underground.

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Lessons from Dimock, PA: Calling for a Moratorium on Natural Gas Drilling in New York

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Fracking, Fracking, Gas Drilling, New York State Legislature, Delaware River, Natural Gas Drilling, Safe Drinking Water Act, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York, New York Gas Drilling, Nrdc, Moratorium, Fracking Moratorium, Natural Resources Defense Council, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, Riverkeeper, Hydrofracking, Dimock, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Green News
Mark Ruffalo

Do we take the dirty-energy money and run and screw the consequences? Or do we build something more sustainable that doesn't hurt the people around us? Which do you choose?

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Natural Gas Drilling: Calling on New York to Stop This Unnatural Process

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Fracking, New York, Fracking, Gas Drilling, New York State Legislature, Natural Gas Drilling, Safe Drinking Water Act, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York Gas Drilling, Delaware River, Green News
Mark Ruffalo

I don't know when America got to the point where someone can pour 590 chemicals into the ground with impunity -- where we have to argue for our right to know what's in our water and to protect our families.

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Tourist Boat OVERTURNS After Barge Collision In Philadelphia

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 05.25.2011

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PHILADELPHIA — An amphibious sightseeing boat that stalled in the Delaware River was knocked over by an oncoming barge Wednesday, spilling 37 pe...

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Power Plants Don't Have to Suck (Literally)

Steve Fleischli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natural Resources, State Water Resources Control Board, Closed Cycle Cooling, Once-Through Cooling, Epa, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River, Power Plants, Obama Administration, Lake Erie, California, Lakes, Rivers, Cooling Water Intake, Environment, Fishing, Oceans, Electric Utilities, Fisheries, Estuaries, Riverkeeper, Green News
Steve Fleischli

Collectively, the power industry sucks in approximately 80 trillion gallons of water annually to cool their equipment. In the process, they kill on a massive scale fish, larvae and other aquatic organisms.

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