Natural gas is claimed to be a clean energy source that could be helpful in addressing global warming. However, methane, the principal component of natural gas is a far more dangerous green house gas than carbon. The extraction of natural gas will only speed up global warming.
Natural gas has been proposed as a bridge fuel [...]
How can DEP Secretary John Hanger defend the Commonwealth’s environmental regulations? They’ve been an abysmal failure. In two years time, we’ve had private water sources contaminated, spills of diesel fuel and fracking fluid on land and in water, fish kills, blowouts, explosions and deaths as a result of the oil & gas industry drilling for [...]
Thursday April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. On that day in 1970, millions gathered across the nation to celebrate, educate and protest. I was in high school in Philadelphia at the time and recall a gathering in Fairmount Park with music and speakers that was broadcast over PBS.
Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin [...]
The Green Party of Pennsylvania held it’s Nominating Convention in Pittsburgh over the weekend of February 20-21. The meeting was very interesting. I met several people new to the party including several who will run for office. We had a couple of observers who were moved to join the party.
Saturday was a [...]
DEP has issued thousands of drilling permits before it even thought about treating the wastewater that hydrofracking generates. DEP has ignored it’s responsibilities and Secretary John Hanger sped up the permitting process at the request of the oil & gas industry instead of seeing that safeguards were in place to protect the environment , [...]
There are a number of reforms that I support for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The most important of which is Ballot Access Reform. The law or state constitution must be changed to allow equal access to the ballot for all candidates. In 2006, the Green Party had 2 candidates, Marakay Rogers and [...]
Agriculture is still the biggest industry in the state of Pennsylvania. Despite this fact, our family farmers struggle to make ends meet. Farmers are some of the hardest working people in the state. I believe the state of Pennsylvania should adopt some measures that would make life a little easier for our [...]
Pennsylvania was the birthplace of the first commercial oil drilling operation in the mid 19th century. One hundred and fifty years later, we have not made major advances in energy production despite rapid development of other technologies such as communications. It is not that other technologies have not emerged. In my opinion, [...]
Over the weekend, I had the priviledge of meeting a couple of individuals from the Constitution Party. We had some very interesting political conversations and I found out that we have more in common than I realized. It was a pleasure to meet Veronica “Niki” Hannevig. She told me that [...]
While reflecting on labor issues over the Labor Day weekend, I made the following observations. The hard working people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania deserve better than they are receiving. The wealth of the state is the result of the working people yet they fall behind or work two jobs just to stay [...]
