The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) has been preparing to defend the appropriateness of the commission to regulate any “exploratory” gas wells drilled in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). Instead, the gas industry, which was questioning DRBC’s right to oversee such matters, has withdrawn from the hearing scheduled for January 18, 2011. It is not clear […]
At an event hosted by the Institute for Law and Public Policy of California University of Pennsylvania on Friday, CHEC speakers Dr. Conrad Dan Volz, Dr. Charles Christen, and Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH discussed the various public health and environmental public health concerns regarding shale gas drilling, as well as tools to help people address […]
[media removed] Complements of Nadia, EARTHWORKS. This video is being shown widely in Britain, as Europe moves into shale gas exploration (involving the investment of U.S. companies).
If you were unable to attend the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s all day conference, Health Effects of Shale Gas Extraction: What is known, and what can we predict?, here is a recap of the afternoon sessions for you provided by CHEC’s staff. Program | Morning Summary | Afternoon Summary (below) | […]
Over the last few months we have received a lot of requests for the datasets on FracTracker’s DataTool to be organized in an index. After a lot of hard work by our data manager, Matt Kelso, and tedious HTML work by me, your wish has been granted. There is now a new page on the blog […]
By Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH – Communications Specialist, CHEC, GSPH; DrPH Student, GSPH While we don’t typically post about earthquakes on FracTracker’s blog, as public health professionals, we should be prepared for such incidents. Apparently, various towns have reported unusual seismic activity near shale gas drilling operations. For example, Residents in Guy, Arkansas are experiencing […]
If you were unable to attend the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s all day conference, Health Effects of Shale Gas Extraction: What is known, and what can we predict?, here is a recap of the morning sessions for you provided by CHEC’s staff. Program | Morning Summary (below) | Afternoon Summary | […]
On Saturday, CHEC presented at the EARTHWORKS People’s Oil and Gas Summit 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA. Of the many fantastic presentations and information made available, we would like to provide some links from the presentations that were a part of the technology panel in which Samantha Malone and Chuck Christen participated: The view from above – […]
By Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH – Communications Specialist, Center for Healthy Environments & Communities (CHEC) of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), & DrPH Student, GSPH During the final days of the APHA Conference and my trip to Colorado, I spent a lot of time working on the University of Pittsburgh […]
By Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH – Communications Specialist, CHEC & DrPH Student, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH); & Drew Michanowicz, MPH, CPH – GIS Specialist, CHEC & DrPH Student, GSPH Aquaculture and public health: Implications for food systems and the environment On Monday morning, Drew and I attended a session on […]
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