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Did Fracking Cause Earthquakes in Ohio?
Brandon Baker | March 12, 2014 12:34 pm | Comments The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has ordered Texas-based energy company...
Mar 28, 20141 min read
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Illinois Residents Demand a Ban on Fracking
An Illinois ban on fracking is inevitable. The question is whether it will happen before or after a major fracking disaster. The public...
Jan 13, 20141 min read
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Radioactive Wastewater From Fracking Is Found in a Pennsylvania Stream
New testing of treated wastewater from fracking shows that it contains high levels of radioactive radium, along with chloride and ...
Oct 3, 20131 min read
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Radioactive Wastewater From Fracking Is Found in a Pennsylvania Stream
Smithsonian.com Surprising Science October 2, 2013 New testing of treated wastewater from fracking shows that it contains high levels of...
Oct 3, 20132 min read
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The Big Push: Putting Tar Sands Through Old Oil Pipelines
Wednesday, 02 October 2013 10:47 However, the company wasn’t always perfect. One of its natural gas pipes ruptured 18 years ago near...
Oct 2, 20131 min read
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Radiation in Pennsylvania Creek Seen as Legacy of Fracking
Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/radiation-in-pennsylvania-creek-seen-as-legacy-of-frackin.html By Jim Efstathiou Jr. –...
Oct 2, 20131 min read
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Setting the Record Straight on Tar Sands and Water Use
Environmental Defence Big Oil is spending millions of dollars to try to greenwash the tar sands, Canada’s fastest growing source of...
Sep 24, 20131 min read
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Colorado Flooding Triggers More Oil and Gas Spills
Cliff Willmeng The crisis for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) that last week’s floods created is now, thanks to community...
Sep 23, 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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Hundreds Protest Radioactive Fracking Waste in Ohio
Food & Water Watch Buckeye Forest Council Concerned Citizens Ohio Athens County Fracking Action Network A coalition of local, statewide...
Jul 31, 20135 min read
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Another Pennsylvania Wastewater Treatment Plant Accused of Illegally Disposing Radioactive Fracking
A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny...
Jul 21, 20131 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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“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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Doddridge County gas fracking explosion injures at least 7
By David Gutman CHARLESTON, W.Va. — At least seven people were injured, four of them very seriously, after an explosion at a hydraulic...
Jul 8, 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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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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11,000+ Massachusetts Residents Call for a Fracking Ban
Environment Massachusetts Graphic courtesy of Corporate Europe Observatory This morning, more than 11,000 residents called on Beacon Hill...
Jun 27, 20131 min read
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Rockland County Bans Radioactive Fracking Waste
June 5, 2013 Grassroots Environmental Education A coalition of health and environmental groups have joined together to congratulate the...
Jun 26, 20131 min read
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Illinois’ New Fracking Regulations Might Not Be So Tough After All
By Thomas Stackpole | Tue Jun. 18, 2013 2:23 PM PDT Michael G McKinne /Shutterstock Monday afternoon Illinois governor Pat Quinn signed...
Jun 20, 20131 min read
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Influence of Grassroots Anti-Fracking Movement Spreads Like Wildfire
EcoWatch Jill Wiener has dedicated a large part of the past five years of her life to keeping the use of hydraulic fracturing for natural...
Jun 19, 20132 min read
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