From CREDO Action: Before the worst environmental disaster in American history began, BP was claiming almost a quarter of a million dollars in tax deductions per day for its Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf. That’s right, at a time of soaring deficits and record unemployment, a single deepwater offshore drilling facility won $225,000 [...]

An unregulated drilling technique is putting the water supply for Trenton, Phillipsburg and many South Jersey towns at risk and we need your help to protect it. (Click this link to send an e-mail message and to take other actions!) Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale (PA & NY) is threatening to pollute New [...]

natural gas drilling, originally uploaded by arimoore. From NY H2O- GAS DRILLING CONTAMINATES WATER NATIONWIDE. BUT WE CAN SAVE NY! SAVE THE DELAWARE RIVER! The Delaware River Basin Commission is at it again… Stone Energy Corporation is trying to ‘frack’ with the protected Delaware River. We need everyone at the Public Hearing to stand up [...]

Delaware River, originally uploaded by joiseyshowaa. From NJ Chapter Sierra Club: PSE&G is proposing to expand their right-of-way through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and across the Appalachian Trail. They propose to add a 500Kv line to the existing 230Kv line and double the height of the existing towers to 175 feet. To [...]

The Sierra Club is in the process of finalizing team charge approval for a new hydrofracking activist team. Our team’s goal is to address the environmental and health effects of hydraulic fracturing for gas. We will primarily work to research and report on these issues and help activists on the ground who are facing problems [...]