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No Pipe Dream: Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
Daniel Foster / Flickr)For the past several years, I’ve been writing about what happens when big oil and gas corporations drill where...
Jan 30, 20141 min read
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Leaders Urge President Obama: Consider Climate in Decisions on Keystone XL, Fracking and Drilling in
As reported in an exclusive to the Washington Post today, eighteen environmental, environmental justice and public health advocacy groups...
Jan 17, 20141 min read
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Illinois Residents Demand a Ban on Fracking
An Illinois ban on fracking is inevitable. The question is whether it will happen before or after a major fracking disaster. The public...
Jan 13, 20141 min read
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New Brunswick Oil Train Derails, Forcing Dozens Of Evacuations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/new-brunswick-oil-train-derails_n_4558812.html AP | Posted: 01/07/2014 11:21 pm...
Jan 8, 20141 min read
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Exclusive: Permit Shows Bakken Shale Oil in Casselton Train Explosion Contained High Levels of Volat
On January 2, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a major safety alert, declaring oil obtained...
Jan 7, 20141 min read
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Research Links Proximity to Fracking and Low Birth Weight in Newborns
It maybe early in a new year, but already new research has been published which raises serious health concerns about fracking. What is...
Jan 7, 20141 min read
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Eagle Ford Shale: Breathe at Your Own Risk
Fracking is in full swing in the Eagle Ford Shale region of southern Texas, home to the most productive oil field in the United States....
Jan 3, 20141 min read
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Train Derailment Causes Fiery Destruction In Casselton, ND
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/train-derailment_n_4520730.html By DAVE KOLPACK 12/30/13 09:54 PM ET EST Valley News Live –...
Dec 31, 20133 min read
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Harvard Study Blows Apart Obama’s Case for Natural Gas
Huffington Post December 10, 2013 by Daniel Kessler Democrats like to label the GOP the “anti-science party” – but, well, you know what...
Dec 17, 20132 min read
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Fracking hell: what it’s really like to live next to a shale gas well
Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where...
Dec 14, 20132 min read
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Indigenous Canadian fracking protesters refuse to back down
by Andrea SchmidtDecember 2, 20137:41PM ET Demonstrators defy court injunction intended to keep them from...
Dec 6, 20131 min read
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Martin Sheen Exposé on Fracking to Air on Public TV
This week, Martin Sheen’s Breakthroughs program released an expose on fracking featuring Environment America to public television...
Dec 6, 20131 min read
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House Energy Bills Would Unleash Fracking Free-for-All on Public Lands
By Bobby McEnaney Now that House Republicans have moved beyond closing national parks, stalling environmental safeguards and canceling...
Nov 20, 20131 min read
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Setting the Record Straight on Fracking
By Sandra Steingraber and Wenonah Hauter Speaking before youth conservation leaders in California, Jewell cited what she called...
Nov 20, 20131 min read
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Does Homeland Security Think Fracktivists are Terrorists?
Sharon Wilson | November 15, 2013 3:22 pm | Comments According to comments made by Mark Grawe, chief operating officer at EagleRidge...
Nov 18, 20131 min read
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Illinois’ draft fracking regulations: haste makes waste
This is a recent blog from one of the lead attorneys who worked on the fracking regulatory bill in the spring, regarding the specific...
Nov 17, 20136 min read
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Fracking’s Dirty Little Secret
by Daryl Hannah and Diane Moss Fracking imposes unnecessary risks on public health and on our diminishing, yet most precious of...
Nov 15, 20131 min read
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Fracking the American Dream: Drilling Decreases Property Value
Drilling conflicts are almost always described in the context of their impacts on air, water and health. But increasingly, as the...
Nov 14, 20131 min read
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Industry Word Games Mislead Americans on Fracking
SkyTruth |November 8, 2013 3:34 pm | Comments By David Manthos Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, and other drilling...
Nov 11, 20131 min read
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Oil and Gas Regulations Fail to Protect Communities’ Water
A report was released today identifying and examining the dangers to water quality posed by oil and gas production in the states of...
Nov 8, 20131 min read
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