Monthly Archives: May 2010

Southern York County’s Paul Smith Library is scheduled to host a free informational event about installing solar panels at your house at 7 p.m. May 19 at the library, 80 Constitution Avenue, Shrewsbury. The event is scheduled to be hosted … Continue reading →

Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering training programs for people who might be interested in getting work in the growing Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling industry in northern and western Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The programs are billed as short term … Continue reading →

I haven’t seen the film, so I won’t say anything up or down about it. But I imagine that this is a film that might make you think regardless of how you connect with the outdoors, whether as an environmental … Continue reading →

Horizontal drilling has cropped up before. I remember some talk of it for getting to the oil under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, by drilling down into the earth from outside the refuge, then making an abrupt right or left … Continue reading →

The York area is right now on the hook for millions to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay. But obviously, if something like the Louisiana oil spill hit off the coast of Virginia, Delaware or Maryland, it’s probably likely all … Continue reading →

A bill that would crimp future expansion of Marcellus gas drilling on Pennsylvania public lands has passed the state House by a fairly hefty margin, 157-33. Still, the bill isn’t a clamp down as some might want. The moratorium is … Continue reading →

Well, as it turns out — at least according to a recent Wegmens study on what kind of egg packaging the store should use to sell its eggs — that those plastic containers aren’t all that great. But, it’s not … Continue reading →