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@EHPinfo This guide was created for those: TABLE OF CONTENTS • living with unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD), commonly known as “fracking”; • wanting to learn more about UOGD/fracking and its impacts; EMERGENCY CONTACTS ...... 4 • needing assistance with fracking-related emergencies, health Health Related...... 4 concerns, legal assistance, and other services; and Environment Related ...... 4 • looking for opportunities to get involved. LOCAL AND STATE LEGISLATORS...... 6 The resources selected in this booklet have been used by EHP in the past or recommended to EHP by partners. Many of the resources are focused here in Southwestern PA, but many will ORGANIZATIONS...... 7 also be useful to a nation-wide audience.
If you would like to be added to this list or have any questions or RESOURCES...... 31 corrections regarding these resources, call 724-260-5504 or email [email protected]. Children...... 31 Environmental Exposure ...... 31 Last updated: May 2018 Glossaries/Acronyms...... 34 Health...... 34 Infrastructure Related to Natural Gas...... 38 Landowners ...... 40 Legal...... 42 Organizing...... 42 Miscellaneous...... 43
All photos on the front cover were provided by FracTracker Alliance, www.fractracker.org Savanna Lenker. Compressor station within Loyalsock State Forest, PA. 2016. J. Trallo. Pipeline construction, 2011. Samantha Malone. Well pad site visit in WV.
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Call 911 if there is an emergency requiring immediate local Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) police, fire, or emergency medical services. 800-541-2050 | 24 hr/day Remember to ask for a case/reference number, and to have your complaint logged when you call. DEP Southwest Region 412-442-4000 | 24 hr/day HEALTH RELATED: Environmental Health Project (EHP) Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission - Fish Kill Hotline 2001 Waterdam Plaza Drive, Ste. 201, McMurray, PA 855-347-4545 | 8:00AM - 4:00PM 724-260-5504 | 8:30AM - 4:30PM, M-F [email protected] Pennsylvania Office Attorney General (OAG): Environmental Accurate, timely and trusted public health information and services Protection Section associated with natural gas extraction 717-787-3391
www.attorneygeneral.gov Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) – Bureau of Epidemiology 717-787-3350 | 8:00AM - 4:00PM, M-F Southwest Region Fish and Boat Commission Law Enforcement Office (Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, [email protected] Indiana, Somerset, Washington, Westmoreland) Call to report a public health concern 814-445-8974 | 8:00AM - 4:00PM
**DO NOT LEAVE MESSAGES TO REPORT VIOLATIONS, POLLUTION OR ENVIRONMENT RELATED: FISH KILLS** Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Natural Gas Drilling Outside of business hours – call PA DEP (see above) Tip Line (NRC) Report immediately anything suspected to be a pollution/disturbance of any waterway 877-919-4372 [email protected]
U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health National Response Center (NRC) Administration (OSHA) 800-424-8802 | 202-267-2675 |24 hr/day 800-321-OSHA | TTY: 877-889-5627| Pittsburgh: 412- 395-4903 www.nrc.uscg.mil Call if you witness an oil spill, chemical release or maritime security incident.
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To find your state and local legislators: CATEGORIES
TRACKING/ Find Your State Legislator - PA General Assembly AIR REPORTING www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator
EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER GovTrack www.govtrack.us/congress/members/PA GovTrack aims to help everyone learn about and track the activities HEALTH ZONING of the United States Congress. On this site, you can find the status of federal legislation, information about your representative and senators in Congress including voting records, and original LEGAL/REGULATIONS research on bills and votes.
Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN) – Local (Allegheny County) www.facebook.com/AghCoCAN ACCAN is a grassroots environmental group focused on holding Shenango accountable for violations and pollution.
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Alliance for Aquatic Resources Monitoring (ALLARM) – State American Lung Association – National 717-245-1565| [email protected] National – 1-800-586-4872 | [email protected] | www.lung.org www.allarmwater.org Pennsylvania – 412-321-4029 | ALLARM is a program of Dickinson College that achieves its mission www.lung.org/about-us/local-associations/pennsylvania.html by providing an enhanced educational experience for Dickinson The American Lung Association’s mission is to save lives by improving students to learn fundamental environmental, community lung health and preventing lung disease. engagement, science education, and non-profit skills. Engage communities to use science as a tool to investigate the health AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH of their streams and to use the data they generate for aquatic protection and restoration efforts. Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Committee (BCMAC) – Local TRACKING/REPORTING WATER (Beaver County) [email protected] Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment (ANHE) – National www.marcellusawareness.org 240-753-3729 | [email protected] BCMAC aims to inform the citizens of Western Pennsylvania, specifically those in Beaver County, about Marcellus Shale gas www.envirn.org drilling, and to protect our natural environment by promoting ANHE promotes healthy people and healthy environments by and supporting sustainable energy alternatives to carbon-based educating and leading the nursing profession, advancing research, energy sources. incorporating evidence-based practice, and influencing policy. Citizens to Protect the Ambridge Reservoir (CPAR) EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH CPAR aims to protect the Ambridge Reservoir from unconventional gas drilling.
AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU) – State 412-681-7736 (Pittsburgh) | Toll free: 877-PGH-ACLU (744-2258) [email protected] Breathe Easy Susquehanna County – Local (Susquehanna County) www.aclupa.org 267-733-5211 | [email protected] ACLU of Pennsylvania is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership www.facebook.com/BreatheEasySusq organization dedicated to defending and expanding individual Breathe Easy Susquehanna County aims to protect regional air rights and personal freedoms throughout the entire state of quality and health of communities in Susquehanna County, PA from Pennsylvania. potentially harmful air emissions released through the processes of LEGAL/REGULATIONS shale gas extraction, production and transport.
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Buffalo Creek Watershed Association (BCWA) –Local Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) – National (Washington County) 202-543-4033 | [email protected] [email protected] www.cehn.org www.buffalocreekwatershed.org CEHN is a national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is BCWA aims to preserve the ecological diversity; natural resources; to protect the developing child from environmental health hazards and, wildlife, plant and floral habitat within the Buffalo Creek and promote a healthier environment. Watershed for the current and future health and economic EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH benefit of all.
EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER Citizens to Preserve Ligonier Valley (CPLV) – Local (Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County) [email protected] Center for Coalfield Justice (CCJ) – Local (Greene & Washington www.cplvweb.wixsite.com/preserveligoniertwp Counties) CPLV aims to preserve the quality of life in the Ligonier Valley 724-229-3550 | [email protected] so that it remains a safe, healthy, and attractive place for living, www.coalfieldjustice.org working, recreation, and tourism, for now and for generations CCJ aims to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of to come. fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY TRACKING/REPORTING coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. WATER EDUCATION/ADVOCACY LEGAL/REGULATIONS
Clean Air Council (CAC) – State Center for Environmental Health (CEH) – National 215-567-4004 | [email protected] 510-655-3900 | www.ceh.org/contact www.cleanair.org www.ceh.org www.cleanair.org/dirty-energy CEH aims to monitor and report on potential health threats from CAC is dedicated to protecting and defending everyone’s right to fracking, and fights for protections for all families. breathe clean air. Works in public education, community advocacy, enforcement of environmental laws EDUCATION/ADVOCACY TRACKING/REPORTING
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Clean Air Task Force (CATF) – National Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) – Regional (Marcellus Region) 617-624-0234 845-252-6677 | [email protected] www.catf.us www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org CATF aims to help safeguard against the worst impacts of climate DCS is a collaborative endeavor to preserve and protect clean air, change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment land and water as a civil and basic human right in the face of the of low carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies threat posed by the shale gas extraction industry through research and analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector. AIR HEALTH LEGAL/REGULATIONS
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LEGAL/REGULATIONS EarthWorks – National 202-887-1872 | [email protected] Clean Water Action (CWA) – National www.earthworksaction.org 412-765-3053 (Pittsburgh) | [email protected] Earthworks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting www.cleanwateraction.org communities and the environment from the adverse impacts of www.cleanwateraction.org/our-priorities/oil-and-gas mineral and energy development while promoting sustainable solutions. Earthworks stands for clean air, water and land, healthy CWA seeks to protect our environment, health, economic well-being communities, and corporate accountability. and community quality of life. CWA organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to elect environmental Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP) candidates and to solve environmental and community problems. www.ogap.org www.earthworksaction.org/aboutogap.cfm EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY TRACKING/REPORTING
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – National WATER 717-498-0054 | [email protected] www.celdf.org CELDF is building a movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the state, federal, and international level.
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Environmental Health Project (EHP) – Regional (PA, OH, WV, NY) Fayette County Marcellus Watch - Local (Fayette County) 724-260-5504 | [email protected] [email protected] www.environmentalhealthproject.org www.faymarwatch.org EHP is a nonprofit public health organization that assists and Fayette Marcellus Watch is an informally organized group of people supports residents of Southwestern PA and beyond who believe their who have been expressing concerns about Marcellus Shale issues for health has been, or could be, impacted by unconventional a number of years. oil and gas development. TRACKING/REPORTING AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH
TRACKING/REPORTING WATER Food & Water Watch – National 267-428-1903 (PA Regional Office) [email protected]| Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) – National/Regional www.foodandwaterwatch.org 202-296-8800 |[email protected] www.foodandwaterwatch.org/campaign/ban-fracking-everywhere www.environmentalintegrity.org Food and Water Watch champions healthy food and clean water for EIP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that advocates all. They stand up to corporations that put profits before people, and for effective enforcement of environmental laws. EIP has three goals: advocate for a democracy that improves people’s lives and protects our to illustrate through objective facts and figures how the failure to environment. enforce or implement environmental laws increases pollution and harms public health; to hold federal and state agencies, as well as EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER individual corporations, accountable for failing to enforce or comply with environmental laws; and to help local communities obtain the protections of environmental laws. FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry - National EDUCATION/ADVOCACY LEGAL/REGULATIONS 405-607-6808 www.fracfocus.org
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services – Regional (PA, OH) FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry provides a central location for public and industry to communicate and relay information on the 412-742-4615 | [email protected] chemicals used during the process of hydraulic fracturing of oil or www.fairshake-els.org gas wells. The FracFocus website provides impartial and balanced Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services is a nonprofit law firm education tools to the public on the topic of hydraulic fracturing. incubating the growth of sliding scale environmental legal services for TRACKING/REPORTING modest means clients.
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FracTracker Alliance – National Halt the Harm Network (HtH) – National 412-802-0273 | [email protected] 301-548-0148 | [email protected] www.fractracker.org www.halttheharm.net FracTracker studies, maps, and communicates the risks of oil and HtH Network aims to serve and support the community gas development to protect our planet and support the renewable activists, leaders, experts, and other individuals advocating energy transformation. With their online maps you can: locate wells, for the changes needed to halt the harm caused by fracking. compressor stations, and other oil and gas (O&G) facilities near A people-powered network to halt the harms of fracking, to solve you; determine your distance from an O&G site; see patterns of problems, collaborate, share ideas, inspire each other, to halt O&G development and violations; follow the development of O&G gas development’s impact on our families, communities and projects, like pipelines. environment.
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Izaak Walton League (IWL): Harry Enstrom Chapter – Regional Friends of the Harmed: Shalefield Stories –Local (Western PA) (Greene County) 412-346-8098 | [email protected] 740-739-0193 | [email protected] www.shalefieldstories.org www.iwlaharryenstrom.org Shalefield Stories is a compilation of first hand testimonies from IWL aims to conserve, maintain, protect, and restore the soil, forest, people who have been harmed by dangerous drilling in the oil water, and other natural resources of the United States and other and gas shalefields across the US. Their mission is to collaborate lands; to promote means and opportunities for the education of with faith communities, public-health researchers, environmental the public with respect to such resources and their enjoyment and organizations, and social justice groups in providing support to wholesome utilization. affected individuals and families in Western Pennsylvania. EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER
Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) – Local (Pittsburgh) 412-924-0604 | [email protected] www.gasp-pgh.org GASP works to improve air quality to ensure human, environmental, and economic health.
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League of Women Voters (LWV) - National Mars Parent Group – Local (Mars, Butler County) National - 202-429-1965 | www.lwv.org [email protected] Of PA - 717-234-1576 - | www.palwv.org www.marsparentgroup.com Of Greater Pittsburgh - 412-261-4284 | www.lwvpgh.org Mars Parent Group aims to protect children and their future.
Of Washington County - 724-228-9889 | EDUCATION/ADVOCACY www.washingtoncountypalwv.org LWV is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase Minisink Matters – Regional (Minisink, NY) understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public 646-498-1742 | [email protected] policy through education and advocacy. www.stopmcs.org The Straight Scoop on Shale - www.shalepalwv.org Minisink Matters is a group that aims to stop compressor stations 1-800-61-SHALE | [email protected] from entering their community.
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Moms Clean Air Force – National Marcellus Outreach Butler (MOB) – Local (Butler County) [email protected] (Western PA) | | [email protected] www.marcellusoutreachbutler.org/contact-us.html www.momscleanairforce.org/contact-us www.marcellusoutreachbutler.org www.momscleanairforce.org MOB aims to educate, advocate, and activate communities to ban Moms Clean Air Force is a community of hundreds of thousands fracking and its infrastructure and promote renewable energy. of moms—and dads!—working together to combat air pollution, EDUCATION/ADVOCACY including the urgent crisis of our changing climate. AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH
Marcellus Protest – Regional (Marcellus Region) 724-485-9835 | [email protected] | [email protected] www.marcellusprotest.org Marcellus Protest is an alliance of western PA groups & individuals building a broad movement to stop the destruction of our environment and communities caused by Marcellus Shale gas drilling and to support other directly affected communities.
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Mountain Watershed Association (MWA) – Local (Fayette & National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) – National Washington Counties) National – www.nnlm.gov 724-455-4200 | www.mtwatershed.com/contact-us Mid-Atlantic Region includes PA, NY – 412-648-2065 | www.mtwatershed.com [email protected] | www.nnlm.gov/mar | MWA is dedicated to protecting, preserving and restoring the Indian Southeastern/Atlantic Region includes WV – 410-706-2855 | Creek and greater Youghiogheny River watersheds. They pursue www.nnlm.gov/sea on-the-ground restoration of past damage while also advocating Greater Midwest Region includes OH – 319-353-4479 | on local issues (primarily coal and shale gas extraction) as well as www.nnlm.gov/gmr regional and national issues that have a local impact. NNLM advances the progress of medicine and improves public EDUCATION/ADVOCACY TRACKING/REPORTING WATER health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improves the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The Program is coordinated by the National Library of Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative – Regional (NY, OH, Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health PA, VA, WV) science libraries and information centers. 717-255-7181 | [email protected] EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH www.multistateshale.org The Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative brings together independent, nonpartisan research and policy organizations in National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) – National New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia to 212-727-2700 | [email protected] monitor employment trends, tax policy, economic development, www.nrdc.org and the community impacts of energy extraction in the Marcellus and Utica Shale. NRDC works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. EDUCATION/ADVOCACY LEGAL/REGULATIONS EDUCATION/ADVOCACY LEGAL/REGULATIONS TRACKING/REPORTING
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) – Regional (WV, OH) Murrysville Watch Committee – Local (Murrysville, 304-522-0246 | [email protected] Westmoreland County) www.ohvec.org [email protected] OVEC aims to support organized voices and empowered www.murrysvillefracking.com communities to win environmental and social justice Murrysville Watch Committee’s goal is help inform Murrysville campaigns. residents about shale gas drilling ("fracking") in Murrysville and give them opportunities for taking action. HEALTH TRACKING/REPORTING
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Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) - EPA Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air (PACWA) – Local Region 3 – Regional (DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV) (Clearfield & Jefferson Counties) 202-564-2188 | www.epa.gov/children/forms/contact-us-about- [email protected] childrens-health www.pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com www.epa.gov/children/region-3-childrens-environmental-health- PACWA's mission is to raise awareness of the dangers of hydraulic mid-atlantic-states fracturing on public health and the environment, and to halt any PEHSU is available to answer questions from healthcare professionals, activity that threatens the quality of life of the residents of the parents, school officials, or other community members about Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. children’s symptoms that may be related to environmental exposures. AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH WATER Children’s Environmental Health Coordinator 215-814-2813 | [email protected] Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General (OAG): Environmental Schools Coordinator Protection Section – State 215-814-5389 | [email protected] 717-787-3391
HEALTH www.attorneygeneral.gov OAG is committed to protecting the health and safety of all Pennsylvanians by taking prompt action to prevent their exposure PennEnvironment – State to toxic substances. The Office of Attorney General also works 412-521-0943 | www.pennenvironment.org/contact aggressively to seek compensation from those parties who are responsible for harming Pennsylvania’s natural resources. www.pennenvironment.org A statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization LEGAL/REGULATIONS TRACKING/REPORTING protecting the places we love.
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PennFuture – State 800-321-7775 | [email protected] www.pennfuture.org PennFuture is leading the transition to a clean energy economy in Pennsylvania and beyond. They are protecting our air, water and land, and empowering citizens to build sustainable communities for future generations.
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Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) – National Protect Cecil Township – Local (Cecil Township, Washington County) 202-667-4260 | [email protected] protectceciltwp.com/contact-us/ www.psr.org www.protectceciltwp.com www.psr.org/environment-and-health/hydraulic-fracturing.html Protect Cecil Township is a group of concerned citizens working to ensure PSR works to create a healthy, just and peaceful world for both the that all members of the township’s safety, security, and quality of life is present and future generations. protected from the effects of unconventional gas development. Protect Cecil Township is not a “anti-fracking” organization in general, but rather Philadelphia Chapter focuses on concerns related to fracking and the effects it may have on residents – especially of concern is when fracking is to be performed in 267-519-5299 | [email protected] close proximity to residential areas. www.psrphila.org EDUCATION/ADVOCACY
Harrisburg Chapter 717-497-9282 | [email protected] Protect Our Children (POC) – State www.psr.org/chapters/harrisburg 215-567-4004 ext. 200 | [email protected]
Chesapeake Chapter www.protectourchildrencoalition.org 240-246-4492 | [email protected] POC is dedicated to protecting school children from the health risks of shale gas drilling and infrastructure. Goal is to limit children’s exposure www.chesapeakepsr.org to harmful pollutants by keeping shale gas drilling and infrastructure at least one mile away from schools. AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH TRACKING/REPORTING WATER
Protect PT – Local (Penn-Trafford and surrounding communities in Westmoreland & Allegheny Counties) Pipeline Safety Coalition (PSC) – National [email protected] 484-340-0648| [email protected] www.protectpt.org www.pscoalition.org Protect PT is a citizen’s group working to insure the community’s safety, PSC was founded on the belief that the public is entitled to security, and quality of life from the effects easy access to information needed to make informed decisions of unconventional and horizontal drilling. about gas development, infrastructure impacts to landowners, communities and the environment. EDUCATION/ADVOCACY LEGAL/REGULATIONS
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PSE Healthy Energy – National Section 27 Alliance – Local (Butler County) 607-252-6754 | [email protected] www.section27alliance.com/contact.html www.psehealthyenergy.org www.section27alliance.com PSE Healthy Energy provides scientific information to help Section 27 Alliance is devoted to stopping residential drilling in Butler identify reasonable, healthy, and sustainable energy options. Township and making sure that the Butler Township Board of They put their mission into practice by integrating scientific Commissioners enacts ordinances that: 1) benefit ALL township understanding across multiple disciplines, including engineering, residents, and 2) defend each resident’s right to clean air, pure water environmental science, and public health. They generate, translate, and a healthy environment. and disseminate scientific research to promote the adoption of EDUCATION/ADVOCACY evidence-based energy policies.
EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH Shalefield Stories -see Friends of the Harmed: Shalefield Stories
Reducing Outdoor Contaminants in Indoor Spaces (ROCIS) – Sierra Club – National Regional (Southwestern PA) www.sierraclub.org www.rocis.org Sierra Club's mission is to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of ROCIS aims to reduce the impact of exterior environmental the earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s pollution in southwestern Pennsylvania to improve healthy and ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect energy efficient indoor environments where we live, work, and and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to learn. use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
AIR TRACKING/REPORTING Allegheny Group - Local (Western PA) 412-802-6161 | www.alleghenysc.org/contact www.alleghenysc.org Save Our Salem (SOS) – Local (Salem Township, Westmoreland www.alleghenysc.org/category/fracking County) [email protected] AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY LEGAL/REGULATIONS www.saveoursalempa.com WATER SOS provides educational opportunities about gas development and its impact on the community.
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26 27 SkyTruth – National Thomas Merton Center (TMC) – Local (Allegheny County) 304-885-4581 | [email protected] 412-361-3022 | [email protected] www.skytruth.org www.thomasmertoncenter.org SkyTruth aims to protect the environment by making more of it TMC works to build a consciousness of values and to raise the moral visible. Driven by the belief that better transparency leads to better questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, classism, management and better outcomes. By sharing our findings – economic justice, human rights, and environmental justice. TMC engages stunning imagery and robust science-based data – with the public people of diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in for free, we move policy makers, governments and corporations the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. towards more responsible behavior in the environment. Environmental Justice Committee SkyTruth Alerts delivers real-time updates about environmental incidents in your back yard. http://alerts.skytruth.org/ 412-596-0066 | [email protected] Environmental Justice Committee is dedicated to issues of AIR TRACKING/REPORTING WATER environmental rights and local democratic rights of people working to preserve clean air, clean water, and soil.
Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project – see EDUCATION/ADVOCACY Environmental Health Project
Upper Burrell Citizens Against Marcellus Pollution (CAMP) – Local (Westmoreland County) Sustainable Monroeville – Local (Monroeville, Allegheny County) [email protected] www.sustainablemonroeville.blogspot.com Sustainable Monroeville aims to help the city of Monroeville move www.facebook.com/UpperBurrellCAMP forward in the green economy by offering sustainable solutions. Upper Burrell CAMP are united to ban fracking in their community.
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Washington County Watershed Alliance (WCWA) – Local The Fracking Resistance – Local (Lawrence County) (Washington County) www.facebook.com/Frackingresistancelawrence 724-503-4785 | [email protected] The Fracking Resistance aims to organize and execute a plan to www.wcwalliance.org stand up to big industry/hydraulic fracturing in our communities and to give the truth to the people of the Lawrence County and WCWA is a nonprofit conservation organization for the whole county, surrounding areas by informing them of the hazards of fracking. designed to enhance and coordinate the activities of individual watershed associations. EDUCATION/ADVOCACY EDUCATION/ADVOCACY WATER
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Westmoreland Marcellus Citizens’ Group (WMCG) – RESOURCES Local (Westmoreland County) [email protected] www.westmorelandmarcellus.blogspot.com CHILDREN WMCG’s mission is to educate communities on the impacts of Marcellus shale drilling on the natural environment, health, and long- term economics and to enact land-use ordinances that will better Environmental Health Project serve the interest of Westmoreland County residents. www.environmentalhealthproject.org/resources/research- factsheets EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH LEGAL/REGULATIONS • Facts for School Nurses • Facts for your Pediatrician Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE) – Regional (South • Outdoor Air, Indoor Air, and School Exposure Western PA) • Risks to Children at Day Care Centers & Schools Near Shale 412-404-2872 | [email protected] Gas Development www.womenforahealthyenvironment.org WHE educates and empowers women to be ambassadors about Moms Clean Air Force environmental risks so that they can make healthy choices for How Oil & Gas Operations Impact Your Baby’s Health themselves and their families and advocate for change for a better www.momscleanairforce.org/oil-gas-babys-health/ tomorrow for all.
AIR EDUCATION/ADVOCACY HEALTH WATER Protect Our Children Coalition Rebuttals to Statements heard from the Shale Gas Industry, parents, school boards, local and state representatives www.protectourchildrencoalition.org/public-education- templates
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Alliance for Aquatic Resources Monitoring Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback Water Chemical Composition Research www.scholar.dickinson.edu/cgi/viewcontent. cgi?article=1043&context=student_work
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PA Reporting Decision Trees - Visual Observations Decision Tree, Environmental Health Project Chemical Monitoring Decision Tree, Pipeline Monitoring Decision Tree www.environmentalhealthproject.org/resources/research- www.dickinson.edu/download/downloads/id/6212/pa_decision_ factsheets trees_2016.pdf • Episodic Exposures to Shale Gas Development Air Pollution American Lung Association • Home Exposure Assessment Related to Oil and Gas Drilling State of the Air Activities www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/sota/ • Individual Health Exposure Assessment • Outdoor Air, Indoor Air, and School Exposure Carnegie Mellon University - CREATE Lab Citizen Science Toolkit - Fracking Risks in Your Community: Smell Pittsburgh App Measuring, Monitoring, and Mitigating www.create.posthaven.com/create-lab-launches-all-new-app-smell-pgh www.environmentalhealthproject.org/citizen-science-toolkit Environmental Health Channel Clean Air Task Force/Earthworks/FracTracker www.envhealthchannel.org Oil & Gas Threat Map Webinar: Exploring the Environmental Health Channel www.oilandgasthreatmap.com www.crowdcast.io/e/environmentalhealthchannel
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability FracFocus www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org/handouts Chemical Disclosure Registry www.fracfocus.org • Compressor Stations • Fracking the Farm Halt the Harm Network • Pipelines Webinar: Using FLIR Cameras to Show Oil & Gas Air Pollution: • Road Use Seeing is believing! www.halttheharm.net/2018/04/using-flir-cameras-to-show-oil- • Your Farm at Risk gas-air-pollution-seeing-is-believing
Earthworks Moms Clean Air Force Community Empowerment Infrared Video Map Methane Leaks: Harmful, Wasteful and Preventable The Community Empowerment Project is a powerful tool that enables www.momscleanairforce.org/methane-leaks-factsheet communities to use the best available technology to expose toxic fracking air pollution. Natural Gas and Air Pollution www.earthworksaction.org/voices/detail/citizens_empowerment_ www.momscleanairforce.org/natural-gas-facts project#.WP5PUPkrLIX Natural Gas Q&A www.momscleanairforce.org/natural-gas-q-a
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National Network of Libraries of Medicine Environmental Health Project Tox Town - environmental health concerns and toxic chemicals www.environmentalhealthproject.org/resources/researchfactsheets where you live, work, and play www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/index.php EHP Community Stress Project • Illustrated Stages of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development GLOSSARIES/ACRONYMS (UOGD): Examining the Potential for Ground/Surface Water and Air Contamination
Center of the American West/University of Colorado Boulder • Protecting Your Health from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development (UOGD or “Fracking”) A Glossary for Citizen-Explorers Bravely Entering the Controversy Over Hydraulic Fracturing • Quick Reference Card for Emergency Numbers www.centerwest.org/projects/energy/glossary • Tips for Talking to Your Health Care Provider: Concerns about Unconventional Oil and Gas Development (UOGD or “Fracking”) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission EHP Factsheets Acronyms www.ferc.gov/resources/acronyms.asp • Biomonitoring and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) • Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) and Shale Gas Development Pipeline Safety Coalition • Episodic Exposures to Shale Gas Development Air Pollution Pipeline Acronyms • Facts for School Nurses www.pscoalition.org/pages/acronyms • Facts for your Pediatrician Pipeline Glossary www.pscoalition.org/pages/glossary • Outdoor Air, Indoor Air, and School Exposure • Potential Health Effects Due to Inhalation HEALTH • Risks to School Children at Day Care Centers & Schools Near Shale Gas Development Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility • What is Particulate Matter (PM)? The Health Effects of Fracking www.chesapeakepsr.org/position-papers Webinar Presentations • Children’s Health and “Fracking” Damascus Citizens for Sustainability • Community & Psychosocial Effects of Oil & Gas Development Emergency Medical Services (3-Part Webinar Series) www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org/handouts • Shale Gas & Oil Health Registry & Resource Network
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Exposure Assessment Forms National Network of Libraries of Medicine www.environmentalhealthproject.org/clients/client-forms Information about fracking and health www.envirnevidence.org/fracking.html# • EHP Individual Health Exposure Assessment • EHP Home Exposure Assessment Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air • Survey for Patients’ Potential Exposure Is Natural Gas Production Your New Neighbor? www.pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/ For Health Care Providers is-gas-your-new-neighbor www.environmentalhealthproject.org/healthcare-providers/ List of the Harmed – Pennsylvania resources/research-factsheets www.pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/ the-list-pennsylvania • A Health Care Provider’s Guide to Mental Health Impacts of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development (UOGD) • Case Definition for Environmental Exposure Physicians for Social Responsibility Fracking and Health – Resource List • Environmental Health Medical Toolkit (overview) www.psrphila.org/health-and-fracking • Reference Materials for Diagnostic Coding Health Effects of Chemicals Used in Fracking • Medical Toolbox www.psr-la.org/fracking-infographic.pdf www.environmentalhealthproject.org/healthcare-providers/ medical-toolbox Protect Our Children Coalition Shale Gas & Oil Health Registry & Resource Network www.protectourchildrencoalition.org/public-education- www.environmentalhealthproject.org/health-effect-registry templates • Air and Health Impacts of Compressor Stations Halt the Harm Network • Air and Health Impacts of Fracking Well Pads Webinar: Find Research with the FrackHealth Database • Health Impacts of Shale Gas Infrastructure PowerPoint www.crowdcast.io/e/frackhealth Webinar: Shale Gas & Oil Health Registry/Resource Network www.halttheharm.net/2017/04/webinar-shale-gas-oil-health- registryresource-network
League of Women Voters - Shale and Public Health Committee Shale Gas Extraction and Public Health - A Resource Guide www.shalepalwv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016- Marcellus-Shale-Resource-Guide-.pdf
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INFRASTRUCTURE RELATED TO NATURAL GAS FracTracker FracTracker App Damascus Citizens for Sustainability www.fractracker.org/apps www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org/handouts Map of Storage Wells www.maps.fractracker.org/latest/?appid=7e9d30ddd80d4dc89fb6003723010d67 • Compressor Stations Oil & Gas Infrastructure Maps • Fracking the Farm www.fractracker.org/map • Pipelines Halt the Harm Network • Road Use Webinar: Falcon Ethane Pipeline: Preparing Our Response Through • Your Farm at Risk Mapping and Public Impact Assessment www.crowdcast.io/e/falcon-pipeline Environmental Health Project Webinar: Injection Wells 101 – Finding a Place for Our Fracking Waste A User's Guide to FracTracker www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=R5f0ZAA3Rgk www.environmentalhealthproject.org/resources/8/click/108 Illustrated Stages of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development PA Department of Environmental Protection (UOGD): Examining the Potential for Ground/Surface Water and Air Contamination 2016 Oil and Gas Annual Report www.environmentalhealthproject.org/resources/research- www.depgis.state.pa.us/oilgasannualreport/index.html factsheets Road spreading of Brine for Dust Control and Road Stabilization Webinar: Injection Wells 101 – Finding a place for our fracking waste www.dep.pa.gov/business/energy/oilandgasprograms/oilandgasmgmt www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=R5f0ZAA3Rgk (page down to FACT SHEETS)
Food & Water Watch PA Government Pipelines 101: A Quick Reference Guide DEP Office of Oil and Gas Management Notifications Report - www.foodandwaterwatch.org/sites/default/files/fs_1706_ information about what activities are occurring at a well. pipelines-web.pdf http://www.depreportingservices.state.pa.us/ReportServer?/Oil_Gas/ OG_Notifications PA State Oil & Gas Mapping Tool - measure distances from well pad FracTracker/Sane Energy to your location. You are Here Map - shows the “big picture” of the major pipelines, www.depgis.state.pa.us/PaOilAndGasMapping compressor stations, and sites of concern. The Map that explores the shale gas infrastructure of our region and the communities Track permit activity - e-mail notification of new permit activity for oil affected by the industry, and what communities are doing to and gas wells. defend their land, water, air and democracy. www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eNOTICEWeb www.fractracker.org/2016/12/you-are-here
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Pipeline Safety Coalition Mountain Watershed Association/FracTracker Pipeline Acronyms Oil & Gas Zoning in Southwestern Pennsylvania www.pscoalition.org/pages/acronyms www.fractracker.org/2016/08/oil-gas-zoning-southwestern-pa Pipeline Basics www.pscoalition.org/pages/pipeline-basics Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air Pipeline Glossary Is Natural Gas Production Your New Neighbor? www.pscoalition.org/pages/glossary www.pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/ Pipeline Resource Library is-gas-your-new-neighbor www.pscoalition.org/pages/resource-library List of the Harmed PA Farms and Farmers Pipeline Safety Coalition Information for Landowners www.pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/ www.pscoalition.org/pages/for-landowners list-of-the-harmed-pa-farms-and-farmers PPSEP Training Program - Pipeline Procedure and Safety Education Program PA Department of Environmental Protection www.pscoalition.org/pages/ppsep-training-program Landowners and Oil and Gas Leases in Pennsylvania www.dep.pa.gov/business/energy/oilandgasprograms/ Sierra Club oilandgasmgmt Keeping Gas in the Ground - interactive pipeline map, searchable (page down to FACT SHEETS) by zip code or pipeline name. www.sc.org/pipelines Pipeline Safety Coalition Information for Landowners www.pscoalition.org/pages/for-landowners LANDOWNERS Protect PT Center for Coal Field Justice How to Find Who Has A Gas Lease In Our Community What To Know and Do When a Landman Comes www.protectpt.org/how-to-find-a-lease www.coalfieldjustice.org/resources/ What You Should Know Before You Sign: Before You Sign a Lease www.protectpt.org/what-you-should-know Damascus Citizens for Sustainability www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org/handouts
• Fracking the Farm • Your Farm at Risk
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LEGAL Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition Letter to the Editor Tips Environmental Integrity Project www.ohvec.org/letter-to-the-editor-tips Pennsylvania Citizens’ Toolkit - provides descriptions of key portions the public notification and participation requirements, as Protect Our Children Coalition well as provides fact sheets and example templates, so that citizens and decision makers can better prepare themselves. Organizing ABCs www.environmentalintegrity.org/pennsylvania-citizens-toolkit www.protectourchildrencoalition.org/organizing-abc-s-guide
Halt the Harm Network Map of Litigation MISCELLANEOUS www.halttheharm.net/services/map-of-litigation Webinar: How to Use Public Hearings to Beat Oil and Gas Damascus Citizens for Sustainability www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=0nHENdzVcv4 www.damascuscitizensforsustainability.org/handouts
• Hunting and Fishing at Risk • The Economics of Fracking Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative • What Happened to the Fish? Lessons from Gas Patch Communities: A Local Government Guide for Dealing with Drilling • What Residents Must Know https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6751/images/2016Shale_Handbook. • Your State Forest Under Siege pdf
Earthworks Extensive library of publications related to oil and gas extraction. ORGANIZING Select the Oil and Gas tab www.earthworksaction.org/library FracTracker Where are Organizations Monitoring? - Map details the many Environmental Integrity Project watersheds in and around the Marcellus Shale where organizations Don’t Believe the “Job Killer” Hype conduct water quality monitoring, in addition to showing the www.environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ boundaries of the Marcellus Shale formation and drilled wells. Jobs-and-environment-report.pdf Darker shaded watersheds denote a higher “density” of monitoring in those watersheds. www.fractracker.org/projects/water-monitor
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FracTracker Oil & Gas Photos & Videos www.fractracker.org/resources/photos
Friends of the Harmed Various resources and organizations listed www.shalefieldstories.org/resources.html
Halt the Harm Network/Mountain Watershed Association Resource Center The Help center is an extensive service and set of tools developed by Halt the Harm along with Mountain Watershed Association in Pennsylvania. Call the hotline or visit the support center to get the truth about fracking, get questions answered, and be connected to the advocacy resources you need. www.halttheharm.freshdesk.com/support/home
Protect Our Children Coalition Rebuttals to statements heard from the shale gas industry, parents, school boards, local and state representatives www.protectourchildrencoalition.org/public-education- templates
State Impact Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing, or “Fracking” - Current News Related to UOGD Development in PA https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/tag/fracking/
Please note that this is by no means an exhaustive list of all the resources available, even for the organizations listed in this guide. Hopefully, however, as you access items referred to in this guide, you may discover and utilize the wealth of information available to you.
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