Whether anyone has heard of it or not, there exists unequivocal proof concerning the environmental and human health risks associated with horizontal hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking). The study on horizontal “Hydro-Fracking” by the Center on Global Change at Duke University outlines all of the contamination of well water from methane and other chemicals that occurred within the [...]
Seeing Green
Fracking our lives away
Study by the Center on Global Change at Duke University outlines the many toxic consequences of horizontal hydraulic fracturing
Scott Patrick Humphrey • June 28th, 2011
Health (They Don’t) Care
Scott Patrick Humphrey • April 4th, 2011
Is it the government’s job to provide health care to its citizens? Once you get into it, this is complex question. On the one hand, the idea is that people have the responsibility to take care of their own health and well-being. I agree with that; what happens outside of genetic disposition is an individual’s [...]
Class Wars and Koch Whores
How the Oligarchy’s Disinformation Campaign Keeps You Stupid, Poor and Powerless
Scott Patrick Humphrey • April 4th, 2011
“Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!” —Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ghostbusters, 1984 “Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? [...]
It’s a dirty business
The fight for Zero-Waste in Dutchess County
Scott Patrick Humphrey • January 27th, 2011
Dutchess County has a lot of waste, a fact to which its fabled Resource Recovery Agency (DCRRA) can certainly attest. Yes, there’s waste in the form of 250,000 tons of trash produced annually by county residents and businesses. But more troubling is the millions of dollars the agency seems to mismanage each year, and the [...]
The proof is in the polychlorinated biphenyls
Scott Patrick Humphrey • September 23rd, 2010
There I was, a newly minted reporter on the move, with the wide expanse of the Valley open for my unquenched curiosity, and walking through the Rosendale street festival taking in the sights. As a man on an environmental mission, my thoughts on hydraulic fracturing were still reverberating into the biosphere to anyone who would [...]
