Stephen MettsDanskammer’s Disappearing Act: a case study in environmental injustice.What happens when you disappear an entire community from view when making the case to build yet another fracked gas power plant? You are…Mar 11, 2021Mar 11, 2021
Stephen MettsExtreme Energy: fracked gas in the era of Covid- 19While the public-at-large adheres to lockdown guidelines due to Covid-19, the oil and gas industry is running roughshod over local…Apr 21, 2020Apr 21, 2020
Stephen MettsTrump’s COVID-19 ‘Risk Map’ will convey a false picture of safely for his base.As part of President Trump’s ongoing campaign for a ‘packed churches’ Easter miracle, a dangerous trial balloon has been launched in the…Mar 28, 20201Mar 28, 20201
Stephen Metts2020: the year Fracked Gas’ most enduring trope will collapseIn the depths of the Great Recession, fracking took hold in American shale basins, spawning an unending, debt-fueled glut of domestic oil…Feb 19, 20202Feb 19, 20202
Stephen MettsThe Weymouth Compressor Station: Exhibit A in the persistence of toxic burden ‘hotspots’To date, the unrelenting ‘natural’ gas infrastructure buildout of frack pads, gathering lines, interstate pipelines, compressor stations…Feb 1, 2020Feb 1, 2020
Stephen MettsThe Kentucky Enbridge Pipeline Explosion: everyday risk buried in American backyards.IN the early hours of the first day of August, 2019, an unassuming mobile home park experienced firsthand the nightmare lurking in…Aug 17, 2019Aug 17, 2019
Stephen Metts“The Polar Vortex is Coming”: Fracked Gas’ clarion call to build more pipelines.During the winter of 2013–2014, the Northeastern United States was plunged into a deep freeze due to a seemingly rarified weather pattern…Jun 18, 2019Jun 18, 2019
Stephen MettsThe Weymouth Compressor Station: Massachusetts’ Moment of Climate TruthComing just days after the disastrous decision in Virginia by its Department of Environmental Quality Air Board to approve the siting of a…Jan 11, 2019Jan 11, 2019
Stephen MettsDominion Energy & Environmental Racism: a case study in how to lie with mapsYes, the title is provocative, but its not entirely mine. I simply and liberally borrow from the classic Mark Monmonier primer entitled…Jan 8, 20192Jan 8, 20192
Stephen MettsPrecipice of Doom: the dire implications of the IPCC 2018 climate report for New York City and…It doesn’t take much effort to get to page 6 of the IPCC 2018 Summary for Policy Makers where readers are faced with an absurd…Oct 17, 2018Oct 17, 2018
