Veronica Coptis (@vcoptis) 's Twitter Profile
Veronica Coptis

@vcoptis

mom, wife, Senior Advisor @taprootearth, activist, hiker, organizer, living in rural America (tweets are my own)

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calendar_today17-09-2010 21:11:38

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CoalfieldJustice (@coalfldjustice) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Researchers found that children who lived within 1 mi. of a well had 5-7x the chance of developing lymphoma... That equates to 60 to 84 lymphoma cases per million children living near wells, versus 12 per million among kids living farther away." abc27.com/news/us-world/โ€ฆ

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Janice Blanock, whose son Luke died of Ewing sarcoma, asks "Why in the hell not [include radium isotopes in the study]?" The researchers say there is no way to do so retroactively.

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๐Ÿ“ข press release from Yough Riverkeeper PSR Pennsylvania CoalfieldJustice & FracTracker Alliance in response to the public meeting held by the #PA DOH & the University of Pitt School of Public Health on the findings of the recently released #PA Health & Environment Studies ๐Ÿ”— in bio

๐Ÿ“ข press release from <a href="/youghrvrkeeper/">Yough Riverkeeper</a> <a href="/PSRPennsylvania/">PSR Pennsylvania</a> <a href="/CoalfldJustice/">CoalfieldJustice</a> &amp; <a href="/FracTracker/">FracTracker Alliance</a> in response to the public meeting held by the #PA DOH &amp; the University of Pitt School of Public Health on the findings of the recently released #PA Health &amp; Environment Studies
๐Ÿ”— in bio
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The cost of regulating more and increasing setbacks, closing the haz waste loophole is likely a difference of billions to millions of profits. What even is that difference to parents still making 7.25 for minimum wage and bad healthcare trying to care for kids with cancer

Quinn Glabicki (@quinnglabicki) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Joint Pitt, state studies find link between proximity to fracking and increased cancer rates, asthma attacks, low birth weight. publicsource.org/fracking-proxiโ€ฆ

Zachary Shrewsbury for WV (@zachshrewsbury) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My name is Zach Shrewsbury. I am a lifelong West Virginian. Like so many here in West Virginia I have experienced struggle, and I have seen heartbreak. Now, I'm running to replace Joe Manchin and keep West Virginia's Senate seat blue. Join me: secure.actblue.com/donate/shrewsbโ€ฆ

CoalfieldJustice (@coalfldjustice) 's Twitter Profile Photo

๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ”ฅ HUGE FIRE at the nation's largest coal plant right now. A building storing diesel and other unknown chemicals at the Bailey Prep Plant in West Finley, PA caught fire early this morning and has released a massive plume of particulate matter and god knows what else.

๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ”ฅ HUGE FIRE at the nation's largest coal plant right now. A building storing diesel and other unknown chemicals at the Bailey Prep Plant in West Finley, PA caught fire early this morning and has released a massive plume of particulate matter and god knows what else.
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- Fire is "under control with just a few hotspots now" - No injuries reported, all employees accounted for - Building owned by OMNIS, houses a "frother" refinery that turns coal waste slurry into fertilizer and other chemicals - Diesel & other hazardous chems stored in building