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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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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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Illinois: The New Fracking Frontier
The oil and gas industry is drooling over carbon-rich shale formations in the Land of Lincoln. By Trisha Marczak | September 4, 2013...
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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Five Ways to Stop President Obama’s Plan to Frack America
From Ecowatch: When President Obama delivered his speech on climate change in June, we all welcomed his renewed focus on this crisis....
Aug 23, 20131 min read
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Drought-Stricken Texas Fracks Its Way to Water Shortages
EcoWatch By Laura Beans With above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation, according to the National Weather Service’s July...
Aug 23, 20131 min read
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Wisconsin county board approves moratorium on frac sand mines
Mining moratorium reflects concerns over effects on human health. WHITEHALL, Wis. – After issuing more frac sand mining permits than any...
Aug 23, 20131 min read
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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,...
Aug 23, 20131 min read
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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...
Aug 19, 20131 min read
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Fracking boom could lead to housing bust
By Roger Drouin for Grist When it comes to the real estate market in Bradford County, Pa., where 62,600 residents live above the...
Aug 18, 20131 min read
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