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Dec 5, 20128 min read

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An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale

An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale Those words are not the fired-up, angry rhetoric of a fracking activist but rather...

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Nov 30, 20122 min read

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Get Illinois Off Oil | Environment Illinois

The environmental costs of our oil dependence are out of control — from the accidents and spills, to smog, to climate change. It’s time...

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Nov 15, 20121 min read

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“Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health.” New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and

Documents animal and owner health problems with potential links to shale gas drilling. Describes the expansion of drilling and fracking...

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Nov 15, 20124 min read

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Why Fracking Must Be Banned | Breast Cancer Action

Editor’s note: Sandra Steingraber is an acclaimed ecologist and author who explores the links between human rights and the environment,...

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Nov 2, 20121 min read

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Send Your Representatives “Gas Patch Roulette”

Counter industry denial: Send your representatives Gas Patch Roulette Earthworks released a new report last week, Gas Patch Roulette: How...

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Breaking All the Rules—The Crisis in Oil & Gas Regulation Enforcement

Nov 1, 20124 min read

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Breaking All the Rules—The Crisis in Oil & Gas Regulation Enforcement

This report shows that states across the nation are betraying one of the basic agreements between government and the governed: to enforce...

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Oct 31, 20121 min read

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An Exploratory Study of Air Quality Near Natural Gas Operations

Read entire report click here. Peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (November 9, 2012). An...

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Oct 29, 20124 min read

Chemicals

Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview

TEDX — Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview. “Many of the chemicals found in drilling and evaporation pits are considered...

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What is Hydraulic Fracturing a.k.a. Hydrofracking, Fracking?

Oct 23, 20123 min read

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What is Hydraulic Fracturing a.k.a. Hydrofracking, Fracking?

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is most often referred to as the practice of injecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into...

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Oct 22, 20122 min read

Earthquakes

Southern Illinois, Earthquakes and Aquifer Contamination from Fracking

Due to the volume of toxic fluid left underground from hydraulic fracturing activities, Southern Illinoisans are at risk for aquifer...

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Fracking Our Water: CODE RED For Southern Illinois

Oct 21, 20122 min read

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Fracking Our Water: CODE RED For Southern Illinois

Fracking will destroy our water supply. It consumes fresh water in quantities that are almost unimaginable. Just one well will consume 30...

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Drilling Doublespeak | Environmental Working Group

Oct 21, 20121 min read

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Drilling Doublespeak | Environmental Working Group

Gas Drillers Disclose Risks to Shareholders – But Not to Landowners As natural gas development has pushed into populated areas, gas...

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What you need to know about fracking | Environmental Working Group

Oct 21, 20123 min read

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What you need to know about fracking | Environmental Working Group

Hydraulic fracturing has been around for decades. But now, natural gas producers are deploying a new gas drilling method called...

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Oct 21, 20121 min read

World Media

Unearthed: The Fracking Facade – Video

Un•earthed: Setting the track record straight – A video exposing a flawed claim often abused in the sales pitch for promoting shale gas...

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Illinois First High Volume Horizontal Well

Oct 21, 20128 min read

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Illinois First High Volume Horizontal Well

Just on the outskirts of Stephen A. Forbes State Park in Marion County, Illinois, a high-tech oil well nestled on secluded land owned by...

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Oct 19, 20121 min read

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Video: The Illinois Fracking Moratorium Movement

Produced by Cindy Green. Did you know there are Illinois residents who are already affected by existing drilling and frack water...

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New Report Confirms Fracking is Reckless « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environment

Oct 16, 20124 min read

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New Report Confirms Fracking is Reckless « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environment

A new report on shale resources and hydraulic fracturing from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—an independent, nonpartisan...

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Oct 15, 20121 min read

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List of the Harmed | Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air

The following is an ever-growing list of the individuals and families that have been harmed by fracking or shale gas production in the...

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Oct 3, 20123 min read

Air Contamination

Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To 9% From Gas Fields, Gutting Climate

By Joe Romm Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reconfirmed earlier findings of high rates...

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