On May 12 the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection held a public hearing on a proposed AI data center in Homer City. Prior to the hearing, Concerned Residents of Western PA held a protest on Philadelphia Street in Indiana, PA. The concerns of those at the hearing include: The hearing lasted almost 2 hours in […]

This past Tuesday I went to a fracking meeting on Laurel Ridge held by the Mountain Watershed Association (MWA) in Normalville, PA. There was a turnout of more than 20 people. They were discussing a proposed Shannon Compton Well Pad on Laurel Ridge. Presented below is the video of the meeting. Below that are downloadable […]

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Last week I spoke with Matt Kelso of the Fractracker Alliance. They monitor fracking wells across the U.S. and educate the public on their health effects. Kelso is the data manager for the alliance. For those of you who are unfamiliar with hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the video above provides an overview. Basically, the process […]

  The number of corona virus cases has grown exponentially in Cambria County.  I have been keeping track of the number of cases in a google sheet as can be seen above.  The cumulative case line has been following a cubic trend with the polynomial, y = 0.0347×2 – 3051.6x + 7E+07.  This equation accounts for […]

A new survey by the Centers for disease control or CDC suggests that about 500,000 children in the US have low blood lead levels (defined as 5 micrograms per deciliter) from 2007-2010.  This shows an 8.6% decrease compared to the last survey period in 1999-2002.  The graph at the left shows that there are higher […]

I haven’t blogged a lot about environmental issues on CSI without Dead Bodies.  That’s mostly because it’s a topic I do not have a lot of experience with like I do with health care.  Most of my health care blogs have moved over to Healthcare 4 All PA.  That does not mean that those issues […]