Trisha Marczak is a Mint Press staff writer and investigative reporter specializing in the oil industry, environment, education and immigration. She has worked in Australia with several NGOs, and as a staff writer, reporter and an award-winning editor at various newspapers, magazines, and public radio stations throughout the Midwest. Contact Trisha at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter at @TrishaMarczakMP.
TransCanada is pretending the new Gulf Coast Pipeline isn’t part of Keystone XL.
Approval for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline has not yet been given, but that isn’t stopping the corporation from celebrating the completion of the project’s southern portion, which will provide the company a path to the Gulf Coast and the international market. The Gulf Coast Pipeline Project hasn’t been kept secret, but on its website
The ruling keeps Alfonso Rodriguez from learning how fracking fluid makes his patients sick.
A Pennsylvania doctor’s challenge to a medical “gag order” keeping secret the content of fracking fluid has been dismissed in U.S. District Court. The case stems from a 2012 law passed in Pennsylvania that allows doctors to access information related to “trade secret” chemicals used in the fracking process, so long as the information pertains to
Much of $2b in new transit money will be built by local workers, thanks to a new agreement by a nonprofit and Chicago’s transit authority.
This is the second in a two-part series exploring the Jobs to Move America plan and its impact on Chicago’s unemployed. An agreement made by the Chicago Transit Authority is giving hope to the city’s poorest communities, providing a pipeline to manufacturing jobs that have long been absent in the city. This month, the CTA opened the bidding
The state’s highest court soon will rule whether local governments have the authority to ban fracking in their jurisdictions.
The fate of fracking in New York State rests in a decision soon to be made by the state’s Court of Appeals -- one that will determine whether local governments have the authority to ban hydraulic fracturing within city and township limits. The decision will not only be paramount for New York, but for the entire country, as the state is unique
The release shows the TSA plans on collecting far more background information than previously announced, even on fliers deemed ‘low-risk.’
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is once again under fire after documents revealed its plan to pre-screen low-risk domestic travelers, identifying employment history, car registration, property ownership, tax identification numbers and law enforcement records -- all before the traveler shows up for the flight. The new travel
The manufacturing of more than 850 rapid transit cars could create 20,000 jobs for the growing population of unemployment in Chicago.
This is the first in a two-part series exploring the Jobs to Move America plan and its impact on Chicago's unemployed. When the Chicago Transit Authority opened up its bid for $2 billion for the manufacturing of more than 850 rapid transit cars for its subway and urban train system, it also requested bidders detail how they would
The good news for anti-fracking advocates comes after a First Nations-led protest in Canada was stormed by heavily armed officers.
On Monday, a judge ordered a victory for the Mi’kmaq First Nations activists and their supporters when it denied a request by Texas-based Southwestern Energy Company (SWN) to extend an injunction against protesters who had successfully created a blockade, separating the company from its exploratory fracking equipment. The injunction has created a