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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...
Sep 23, 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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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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Proposal Weakens Endangered Species Protections From Fracking on Public Lands
Center for Biological Diversity The Obama administration has proposed a new rule that would scale back the requirement that federal...
Sep 3, 20131 min read
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How the Fracking Industry Avoids Paying Royalties to Landowners
ProPublica By Abrahm Lustgarten Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn...
Aug 15, 20131 min read
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President Obama’s Climate Action Plan: Not Even Close
Tom Weis Unfortunately for all of us, the blueprint he presented is more PR than plan, and has zero chance of stabilizing the climate. To...
Aug 12, 20131 min read
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Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight in PA
Earthjustice If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern Pennsylvania...
Aug 8, 20131 min read
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Legislation Introduced to Eliminate Fracking Industry Loophole
8 People’s Oil & Gas Collaborative- Ohio The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 requires the safe disposal of solid...
Jul 26, 20132 min read
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69,000 Americans Pledge to Risk Arrest if Keystone XL Pipeline Is Approved
Mint Press News By Trisha Marczak The actions are expected to come in many forms, including mass sit-ins at strategic locations along the...
Jul 17, 20131 min read
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Secret Trade Deals Promote Fracking, Threaten Future of American Democracy
Food & Water Watch By Mitch Jones The Transpacific Partnership (TPP) is being secretly negotiated by 12 countries, including the U.S.,...
Jul 17, 20132 min read
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“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back
Director Josh Fox explains his expanded investigation into the natural gas industry and responds to President Obama’s climate speech. —By...
Jul 11, 20131 min read
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Fracking the Streets of London
July 2, 2013 Oil Change International By Andy Rowell The madness surrounding Britain’s fracking frenzy reached new heights this morning...
Jul 4, 20131 min read
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Mass Protest, Not A Speech, Is Needed To Address Climate Change
By Chris Williams, June 27, 2013 Before we get teary eyed with joy or scoff with derision, we should take a closer look at President...
Jul 1, 20131 min read
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Fracked Gas Isn’t a Bridge Fuel—It’s a Gangplank
Josh Fox President Obama announced his new climate change plan today at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. However, all the good...
Jun 28, 20131 min read
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Obama Climate Plan Touts Gas Fracking As “Transition Fuel,” Doubling Down on Methane Ris
Today, President Barack Obama announced his administration’s “Climate Action Plan” for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the...
Jun 27, 20131 min read
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Questioning Obama
For Immediate Release June 24, 2013 PHYSICIANS, SCIENTISTS, AND ENGINEERS QUESTION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S DECISION TO HAND CONTROL OF...
Jun 27, 20132 min read
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