Many of you may recall our long efforts aimed at ensuring a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal, sited in the Chesapeake Bay, undergoes a thorough review process before any decisions are made. Unfortunately those reviews have not occurred and the pressure is on from big business to rush through with the project. A …
Category Archive: Letters & Petitions
Apr 08
Comments on Proposed EPA Coal Pollution Rule
Coal power plants are the largest polluters of water in the United States. This is particularly true for the Susquehanna Watershed. Unfortunately, rules governing the disposal of coal waste in waterways are dangerously out-of-date. That is why Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper joined a coalition in urging the EPA to update its rules by implementing its proposed …
Mar 15
The FRESHER Act (repeal industry stormwater exemption)
Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper joined may other organizations this week in urging Congress to adopt Represenative Cartwright’s FRESHER Act. This bill would close a Clean Water Act loophole that exempts oil and gas industry stormwater pollution prevention permit requirement. If passed into law the bill would take the common sense step to repeal this exemption and require …
Feb 26
Comments to EPA Region 3 re: PA’s 2012 Impaired Waters List
On Monday, February 25 Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper filed comments with Region 3 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging it to partially disapprove Pennsylvania’s 2012 Impaired Waters List. Under the Clean Water Act states must regularly submit a list of waters within the state that are not meeting water quality standards. Water quality standards include …
Feb 25
SRBC Spring 2013 Docket Comments
Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper submitted comments to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) concerning its Spring 2013 docket, its new proposed rule concerning headwater watersheds, and the continued need for a comprehensive, qualitative and quantitative cumulative impacts study. The Susquehanna River Basin is increasingly subject to competing demands on its landscapes and waterways, particularly with the recent boom …
Feb 24
Comments on Flawed Economic Study of LNG Export
Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper joined the Sierra Club, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and many other conservation organizations in telling the Dept. of Energy (DOE) that its economic study of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export is seriously flawed. The DOE is using that study to inform its decision on whether to approve 16 applications for developing export liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals. …
Jan 25
Public Comments Criticizing Flawed LNG Export Economic Study
Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper worked with the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Food & Water Watch, and the Sierra Club in delivering thousands of public comments, including extensive technical comments and a companion economic analysis report, to the Dept. of Energy (DOE) concerning a new economic study on shale gas exports this Thursday, January 24th. DOE’s newly published …
Nov 27
The SRBC, Fracking, and a Cumulative Impacts Study
On Monday November 27th six other environmental organizations joined us in urging the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) to provide details on how, and when, it will conduct a cumulative impacts study of shale gas fracking on water resources of the Basin. Securing a strong commitment from the SRBC to perform this study will provide …
Nov 14
Organizations Demand PADEP Reveal all Data from Water Tests
25 organizations, including Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, sent a letter to Governor Tom Corbett today criticizing the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s well water testing and notification policies as outdated, lacking transparency, and inadequate to protect residents and drinking water from pollution caused by gas drilling. The groups called on the Governor to take immediate action …
Oct 24
Petition to Add Oil & Gas Industry to Toxics Release Inventory
On October 24, 2012 Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper joined the Environmental Integrity Project and 15 other environmental advocacy organizations in petitioning EPA to require the oil and gas extractive industry – including fracking operations – to report to the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). The oil and gas industry has long used and released large amounts of …
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