The Marcellus Shale is a geologic rock formation which contains natural gas buried underground. There is a potentially significant gas resource in the Marcellus Shale region which has been roughly described as an area extending from Chautauqua County eastward to Green, Ulster and Sullivan Counties, and from the Pennsylvania border north to the approximate location of the east-west portion of the New York State Thruway between Schenectady and Auburn. This environmental impact statement was prepared to review the Dept. of Environmental Conservation's program for regulating the oil, gas, underground gas storage and solution mining wells of any depth, and brine disposal, stratigraphic and geothermal wells deepter than 500 feet. This statement addresses the request for well permits to use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques.

The Marcellus Shale is a geologic rock formation which contains natural gas buried underground. There is a potentially significant gas resource in the Marcellus Shale region which has been roughly described as an area extending from Chautauqua County eastward to Green, Ulster and Sullivan Counties, and from the Pennsylvania border north to the approximate location of the east-west portion of the New York State Thruway between Schenectady and Auburn. This environmental impact statement was prepared to review the Dept. of Environmental Conservation's program for regulating the oil, gas, underground gas storage and solution mining wells of any depth, and brine disposal, stratigraphic and geothermal wells deepter than 500 feet. This statement addresses the request for well permits to use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques.

Air pollution is recognized as one of the leading contributors to the global environmental burden of disease, even in countries with relatively low concentrations of air pollution. Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts examines the effect of this complex problem on human health and the environment in different settings around the world. I

With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects to the creation of a new human right to a clean environment.