As secretary of environmental protection, Hess flipped the switch on Pennsylvania’s first commercial wind farm and helped avert a catastrophe at Quecreek mine. Now, his blog is essential reading for lawmakers, executives and activists on either side of the state’s fracking divide.
In July 2002, 18 miners working at the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pa., entered a chamber 240 feet below ground and accidentally broke through the wall
The blog of former PA environmental official David Hess is essential reading for lawmakers, executives, and activists monitoring fracking in the state.
Several Michigan parents, a former principal and even a young student all expressed their frustration earlier this month to the Okemos Public Schools Board of Education over the district’s handling of lead-contaminated water in one of their buildings, although it appears that complaints from staff members had been building for months. “The grievance is in […]