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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 EDT | Updated: 09/30/2013 7:41 am...
Sep 30, 20133 min read
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IKEA: Residential Solar Panels To Go On Sale At Stores In Britain
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/ikea-solar-panels-britain_n_4016087.html?ref=topbar Follow: IKEA Pv Solar Panels, IKEA...
Sep 30, 20132 min read
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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...
Sep 30, 20131 min read
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Antero Resources’s Proposed $500M Fracking Water Pipeline a Costly Wager for Drinking Water Su
This is a guest post by Clint Robertson. There’s been a lot of hype about Keystone XL over the past few months. The proposed pipeline...
Sep 30, 20131 min read
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Beyond Clean Coal/Fracking Awards: IL Environmental Council Should Honor These Five Environmental Le
Jeff Biggers Posted: 09/19/2013 3:30 pm in Huffington Post As the nation watches the unfolding crisis of flooded fracking sites in...
Sep 20, 20134 min read
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EXPERTS: FRACKING METHANE LEAKAGE STUDY FINANCED BY GAS INDUSTRY WITH PARTNER, EDF, IS DEEPLY FLAWED
Numerous Problems Outlined With How Study Was Conducted in Order to Achieve Results Inconsistent with Findings of Independent Researchers...
Sep 20, 20134 min read
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Breaking: 5,250 Gallons of Oil Spill into Colorado’s South Platte River
EcoWatch September 19, 2013 A damaged oil tank has dumped 5,250 gallons of oil into the South Platte River south of Milliken, CO,...
Sep 19, 20132 min read
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Colorado flooding: Evacuations, broken oil pipeline in Weld County
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Posted: 09/14/2013 11:47:25 AM MDT23 comments | Updated: 3 days ago GREELEY — As Front Range...
Sep 17, 20131 min read
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New research: more than half of landowners report problems with shale gas development on their land
Amy Mall’s Blog Posted September 12, 2013 in Health and the Environment Earlier this year, researchers from West Virginia University...
Sep 15, 20131 min read
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Granville Co. votes no to fracking
Posted: Sep 03, 2013 10:46 PM CST Updated: Sep 04, 2013 6:34 AM CST by Eileen Park – bio | email OXFORD, N.C. – Hydraulic fracturing, or...
Sep 11, 20131 min read
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Author to speak on region’s environmental importance
BY NICK MARIANO, THE SOUTHERN CARBONDALE — Award winning author Jeff Biggers will present his take on progressive activism, linking...
Sep 9, 20131 min read
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New Study Finds Another Link Between Drilling and Earthquakes
A new study shows yet another link between oil and gas drilling and manmade earthquakes in Texas. The report, by scientists at the...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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Extraction Frontlines Organizing: Interview With Illinois South Founder Dave Ostendorf on Coal, Frac
Jeff Biggers Author of ‘State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream’ Posted: 09/06/2013 10:12 am at...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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The Flip Side Of Obama’s Keystone XL Delay
Even as President Obama cast a veneer of caution over the Keystone pipeline’s northern half, he quietly expedited dozens of similar...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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Confirmed: Fracking practices to blame for Ohio earthquakes
From NBC News Charles Q. Choi LiveScience Sep. 4, 2013 at 3:54 PM ET USGS This map shows the intensity of shaking in the area of a...
Sep 5, 20131 min read
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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...
Sep 5, 20131 min read
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“Frackademia” By Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
With the school year starting for many this week, it’s another year of academia for professors across the United States – and another...
Sep 4, 20131 min read
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Record-Breaking Renewable Energy Capacity Pushes Fossil Fuel Plants to Close in Germany
EcoWatch August 23, 2013 Germany’s renewable energy industry has again shown its strength, shattering through another solar power record,...
Aug 25, 20132 min read
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Great Ohio River Relay Highlights Impacts of Fracking on Water Resources
EcoWatch August 25, 2013 Wheeling Water Warriors The relay is designed to attract national attention to the environmental issue of...
Aug 25, 20132 min read
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Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Aug. 13, 2013, 10:20 a.m. Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania...
Aug 25, 201311 min read
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