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Feb 13, 20131 min read

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Video: Unsafe conditions at fracking site

Randy Moyer, who trucked brine from wells to treatment plants and back to wells, now suffers from dizziness, blurred vision, headaches,...

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Feb 8, 20131 min read

Education

Presentation by MD on dangers and risks of high-volume fracking

Health Concerns From Unconventional Gas Extraction by Leslie Walleigh MD, MPH Go to Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project...

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Jan 31, 20132 min read

Education

Natural Gas Flowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety

Natural Gas Flowback: the Dark Side of the Boom How the Texas gas boom affects community health and safety Published: April 14, 2011 By:...

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Jan 21, 20133 min read

Education

Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health

PHILADELPHIA – A coalition of academic researchers in the United States is preparing to shine a rigorous scientific light on the...

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EPA Changed Course After Gas Company Protested

Jan 16, 20136 min read

Education

EPA Changed Course After Gas Company Protested

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press WEATHERFORD, Texas January 16, 2013 (AP) When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his...

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Jan 16, 20133 min read

Education

Breaking: Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, TX Shale Gas Water Contamination Study

Posted at DeSmogBlog on Wed, 2013-01-16 11:15 by Steve Horn The Associated Press has a breaking investigative story out today revealing...

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Cracks in the Facade: 25 Years Ago, EPA Linked “Fracking” to Water Contamination

Jan 14, 20133 min read

Chemicals

Cracks in the Facade: 25 Years Ago, EPA Linked “Fracking” to Water Contamination

By Environmental Working Group, Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel Go to website Download report August 3, 2011 An Environmental Working Group...

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Jan 14, 20137 min read

Chemicals

EPA Report on Pavillion, Wyoming

Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming December 8, 2011 Read full report here. Dominic C. DiGiulio, Richard...

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Jan 14, 20132 min read

Education

Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing

Report from Duke University Read full report here: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/cgc/pnas2011.pdf Stephen G. Osborna, Avner Vengoshb,...

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Jan 13, 20137 min read

Education

5 Reasons Natural Gas Won’t Be an Environmental and Economic Savior

We aren’t going to be able to drill our way out of the climate crisis without creating an even bigger mess in the process. January 10,...

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Jan 9, 201311 min read

Education

America’s Secret Fracking War

It might not get as much media attention as the conflict in Afghanistan, but its stakes could be infinitely higher By Ellen Cantarow,...

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Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent

Jan 6, 201311 min read

Education

Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent

by Ellen Cantarow Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its...

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Jan 6, 20133 min read

Education

Study shows air emissions near fracking sites may have serious health impacts

Colorado School of Public Health 19 March, 2012 View the official news release on the CU Denver Newsroom [Photo is Susan Wallace-Babb,...

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Lawsuits from Families Harmed by Fracking

Jan 5, 20132 min read

Litigation

Lawsuits from Families Harmed by Fracking

Read what families are going through in the face of fracking. These are real people, real families. This is their experience with...

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Jan 1, 20131 min read

Education

Effects of Large-Scale Fracking Operations on Residents in West Virginia

West Virginia Host Farms Program This is a website showing how large-scale fracking operations are affecting residents, communities,...

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Dec 27, 20121 min read

Education

Elected Officials to Protect New York, Press Conference

Published on Nov 16, 2012 550 NYS elected officials have pledged to “Elected Officials to Protect NY”. Binghampton Mayor Matthew Ryan,...

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Dec 26, 20121 min read

Education

Former Gas Field Worker Blows the Whistle

Published on Dec 20, 2012 Williamsport native and formal gas worker David Bean describes what life on the job used to be like: spills,...

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Dec 16, 20127 min read

Education

MORE THAN 100 LEADING MEDICAL, SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS URGE WHITE HOUSE TO HALT RUSH TO EXPANDED SHALE GA

First, Do No Harm: Get the Health Facts Now Is the Message From Petitioners to Obama WASHINGTON, D.C.///December 13, 2012///Moving...

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Dec 12, 20122 min read

Education

AFL-CIO: Fracking Exposes Workers to High Levels of Silica and Other Health Hazards

05/22/2012 Ja-Rei Wang Click HERE to go to post If you work in the hydraulic fracturing industry—better known as “fracking”—you may be...

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Dec 10, 20123 min read

Education

Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health

PHILADELPHIA – A coalition of academic researchers in the United States is preparing to shine a rigorous scientific light on the...

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