by Peter Mantius
“We Are Seneca Lake focused on protests outside Crestwood’s U.S. Salt facility on Route 14, drawing marchers from throughout the Finger Lakes and other states. Among those arrested were actor James Cromwell and environmental activist Sandra Steingraber.” Investigative journalist Peter Mantius provides an update on ownership of Seneca Lake salt cavern gas infrastructure. Read the article.
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
“The author of four books and the subject of two documentaries, Steingraber is best known for leading the grassroots fight to end fracking in New York State. That made her our first choice to solicit another lesson in methane — the main component of natural gas — which was back in the news when the US Senate restored stronger limits to its emissions last week.” Read the interview
by Eric Engle
“One of the authors of the Compendium, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, spoke with Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action on Zoom in February. It was an extremely informative meeting co-hosted by West Virginia Citizen Action Group, FACT Ohio, and the West Virginia Rivers Coalition. We learned so much from Dr. Steingraber, in conjunction with reviewing the Compendium, and we at Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action want to convey the severity of continuing the incredibly harmful practice of fracking.” Read the full piece
by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow
Dr. Steingraber was a featured guest on nationally syndicated progressive radio program, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow. Watch the show
by Nick Cunningham
“‘We are shocked to learn from these new findings just how many people are placed in harm’s way by the oil and gas industry’s apparent freedom to use the atmosphere as an ashtray,’ biologist Sandra Steingraber, co-founder Concerned Health Professionals of New York, told DeSmog.” Dr. Steingraber’s comments are featured in this overview of a new study reporting the numbers of U.S. residents living in proximity to oil and gas flaring events. Read the article
by Sarah Brown
“[Steingraber] wrote, at least nine Ithaca faculty members with expertise in the climate crisis — professors she was counting on to help shape the new center — were losing their jobs. ‘I can’t launch an intersectional Center for Climate Justice by myself,’ she wrote.” Dr. Steingraber is quoted in this Chronicle of Higher Education article about changes at Ithaca College. Read the article
by ENH staff
“This investigation … fills in an important data gap and strongly suggests that the toxic emissions from fracking operations are entering the bodies of nearby residents at levels known to cause harm.” Dr. Steingraber’s press release on the fracking chemical body burden study by Environmental Health News is featured in their collection of responses. Read the article
by Amanda Chin
“Steingraber was about to start a Center for Climate Justice at Ithaca College, but nine of her colleagues are losing their jobs.
“‘People are just losing their jobs as if they were just disposable parts and treated in this de-humanized way. It just makes it a toxic workplace for me to be in,’ says Steingraber.” Dr. Steingraber was interviewed by cnycentral.com. Read the article
by Sharon Kelly
“This investigation represents the first comprehensive body burden analysis of residents living in areas targeted by fracking… As such, it fills an important data gap and strongly suggests that the toxic emissions from fracking operations are entering the bodies of nearby residents at levels known to cause harm.” Dr. Steingraber commented on the Environmental Health News body burden study, in DeSmog. Read the article
by Jessica Corbett
“Sandra Steingraber of Concerned Health Professionals of New York, a group that has long sounded the alarm about the impact of fracking—which largely affects poor and rural households—responded by calling for an end to the process.” Dr. Steingraber is quoted extensively in a CommonDreams article addressing a newly-released investigation on chemical exposures in heavy fracking regions of southwestern Pennsylvania. Read the article