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Oct 2, 20131 min read
The Big Push: Putting Tar Sands Through Old Oil Pipelines
Wednesday, 02 October 2013 10:47 However, the company wasn’t always perfect. One of its natural gas pipes ruptured 18 years ago near...
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Oct 1, 20131 min read
Energy Reform, Shale Gas and Public Spending Cuts in Mexico
Tuesday, 01 October 2013 09:14 Shale gas via Shutterstock“Peak oil is not the same as running out of oil. What it means is simply...
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Sep 30, 20133 min read
Fracking Chemicals May Be Unknown, Even To Gas Drillers, Lawsuit Documents Suggest
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/fracking-chemicals_n_3998319.html Posted: 09/27/2013 7:33 am EDTÂ Â |Â Â Updated: 09/30/2013 7:41 am...
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Sep 30, 20131 min read
Boxer asks EPA to ensure safety of L.A. neighborhood near oil field
California senator wants the agency to address chemical odors wafting through University Park neighborhood from Allenco oil field. Los...
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Sep 24, 20131 min read
Setting the Record Straight on Tar Sands and Water Use
Environmental Defence Big Oil is spending millions of dollars to try to greenwash the tar sands, Canada’s fastest growing source of...
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Sep 23, 20131 min read
Eco-Investigators Say Fracking Air Pollution Is Poisoning Families in Texas
Monday, 23 September 2013 10:00 Chiot’s Run)Cameron Cerny moved with his mother and father to Karnes County in southern Texas 10 years...
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Sep 23, 20131 min read
Colorado Flooding Triggers More Oil and Gas Spills
Cliff Willmeng The crisis for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) that last week’s floods created is now, thanks to community...
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Sep 20, 20132 min read
Pennsylvania State Senator Announces Fracking Moratorium Legislation
EcoWatch By Laura Beans announced the introduction of the Natural Gas Drilling Moratorium Act, Senate Bill 1100, that would place a...
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Sep 18, 20131 min read
Oil and fracking chemicals spill into Colorado’s floodwaters
By John Upton TXsharon Fracking equipment overwhelmed by floodwaters in Weld County, Colo, northeast of Denver. Heavy rains returned to...
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Sep 17, 20131 min read
East Boulder County United
Click https://www.facebook.com/EastBoulderCountyUnited to visit the facebook page of East Boulder County United, highlighting the damage...
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Sep 10, 20131 min read
Grandparents Tell Gov. Hickenlooper Not to Frack Their Grandchildren’s Future
Food & Water Watch Concerned grandparents from across Colorado delivered a letter yesterday to tell Gov. Hickenlooper (D-CO) and other...
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Sep 8, 20131 min read
Petition: Don’t let energy corporations silence kids about fracking with gag orders!
“Stop silencing children. Take immediate legal action to remove the Hallowich children from the gag order placed on their family, and...
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Sep 8, 20131 min read
In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 1)
The burst pipeline runs through a golf course, a berry farm, a daycare center, rivers. People along the route wonder, What if it had...
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Sep 8, 20131 min read
In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 2)
The broken pipe snakes through a crucial Ark. watershed where there’s only one shut-off valve for the line, a fact that is making state...
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Sep 5, 20131 min read
Statement on Preliminary Findings from the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project Study
Concerned Health Professionals of NY August 27, 2013 by Larysa Dyrszka, MD; Kathleen Nolan, MD, MSL; and Sandra Steingraber, PhD Early...
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Aug 30, 20131 min read
Drill next door: Here’s what it looks like when fracking moves in
By Erik Hoffner Grist guest contributorWhen my wife and I pulled into a relative’s subdivision in Frederick, Colo., after a wedding on a...
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Aug 23, 20131 min read
650,000 Comments Call on Obama Administration to Ban Fracking on Public Lands
Americans Against Fracking Yesterday, a coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations including Americans Against Fracking,...
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Aug 20, 20131 min read
UK Direct Action Shuts Down Fracking Company Headquarters, PR Firm and Well Site
No Dash For Gas By Emma Hughes Today, anti-fracking protestors from Reclaim the Power have targeted Cuadrilla at locations across the...
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Aug 19, 20131 min read
Colbert Calls Out Fracking Company for Lifetime Gag Order on Children
EcoWatch By Lauren Berlekamp For years, the fracking industry and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have repeated the talking...
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