Western NY Drilling Defense

06/24/2024

Company Linked to Federal Ex*****on Spree Says it Will No Longer Produce Key Drug.
Receiving 1,000's of emails and letters about their manufacturing of phenobarbital, a company called Absolute Standards now says it will no longer produce the drug used in executions. Folks: all those emails and snail-mails work......thanks to all who participated in the effort over the years...

Absolute Standards told Connecticut lawmakers it hasn’t made or sold pentobarbital since December 2020 and that it doesn’t plan to resume.

06/20/2024

In the mid west, it's common that long trains block roads for extended periods of time. In Hammond Indiana, school children have to craw under trains, or climb over them, to get to school. Sometimes they don't make it...

When trains block a crossing for hours on end, kids risk their lives to get to school.

06/19/2024

25% of yard soils in US have huge amounts of lead..

Roughly one in four U.S. households have soil exceeding the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's lead screening levels of 200 parts per million (ppm), halved from the previous level of 400 ppm, a new study found. For households with exposure from multiple sources, the EPA lowered the guidance....

06/12/2024

Vigil at Northrop Grumman defense contractor offices in Amherst NY...

06/06/2024

Some good news on the much delayed Long Island offshore wind farms: NYSERDA and wind farm developers have agreed on a price ratepayers will pay to build the wind farms, which will generate energy for 1 million homes. The bad news is last year the PSC denied the wind farms because the price was too high. The new agreed upon price is essentially the same as the old price. What will the PSC do? Meanwhile, we are building a power line from Quebec to NYC in a setting where Quebec hydropower is diminishing due to global warming.....

Offshore wind farm plans OK’d for Long Island coast

06/06/2024

Longer trains derail more frequently than shorter trains...

The risk of derailment increases with freight train length, according to an academic study published today, which found that a 200-car train is 24% more likely to derail than a 50-car train. The study — by researchers from Brigham Young University, Georgetown University, and Virginia Tech — a**l...

06/01/2024

Buffalo's Billionaire weighs in on tRump verdict...

05/31/2024

This is long overdue...glad it may happen: Love Ca**l Solar Farm

The site of the worst environmental disaster involving chemical wastes in U.S. history could be transformed into a large-scale, eco-friendly, solar renewable energy project.

05/28/2024

In June 2023, a drone train amputated one leg of a Buffalo area boy who was playing near busy tracks....drone trains are operated remotely ....no one is in the cab of the lead engine .

BUFFALO, N.Y. — One evening last June, as Esther Iradukunda set the table for dinner at her home in Buffalo, she heard a high-pitched cry through the kitchen window. She rushed outside and followed the screams to the train tracks that ran about 100 feet away from her house. She found her young bro...

05/13/2024

Sherri Mitchell's remarks at the beginning of VFP Peace walk 2024 in Maine. Sherri is a member of the Penobscot Nation.

Remarks by Sherri Mitchell of the Penobscot Nation set the tone for the start of PeaceWalk 2024 on May 7 in Ogunquit, Maine. Transcription by Sam Rios. ood morning. [Native greeting] Hello, everyone. [Native language]. My name is Sherri Mitchell. My name in my language, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset. I a...

05/08/2024

05/01/2024

While Republican congressmen vote against the Inflation Reduction Act and climate legislation in general, they gladly accept IRA money for solar panels for their private businesses.

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said the Inflation Reduction Act was “loaded with bad policy and wasteful spending.”