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Internal Documents Reveal Coverup in North Dakota Oil Spill
By Jesse Coleman North Dakota, long known for its cattle ranches and open spaces, has recently become one of the oil and gas industry’s...
Oct 25, 20131 min read
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Hundreds Protest Tar Sands Pipeline as Expert Warns of 90 Percent Probability of Line 9 Rupture
By Derek Leahy The international pipeline safety expert who last August described Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline as “high risk for a rupture”...
Oct 24, 20131 min read
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Canadian Scientists Expose Their Government’s Tar Sands Obsession at DC Briefing
EcoWatch A delegation of Canadian scientists and activists participated in a briefing today at the National Press Club in Washington, DC,...
Oct 14, 20131 min read
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Groups Send List of Requirements for Fracking Regulations to Illinois Officials
Jeff Biggers In a letter sent this week to the key legislative committee and state IDNR agency officials, the groups representing rural...
Oct 9, 20131 min read
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The Two Faces of Pat Quinn’s Environmental Policy Puts Downstate in Danger
Where there’s a Will there’s a way October 3, 2013 Governor Pat Quinn recently spoke at the annual dinner of the Illinois Environmental...
Oct 6, 20137 min read
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Fracking ventures can begin registering with state
October 05, 2013 6:00 am • THE SOUTHERN http://thesouthern.com/news/local/fracking-ventures-can-begin-registering-with-state/article_07...
Oct 6, 20131 min read
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Hunter speaks out against governor’s approval of hydraulic fracturing
http://www.senatedem.ilga.gov/index.php/sen-hunter-home/3539-hunter-speaks-out-against-governors-approval-of-hydraulic-fracturing-...
Oct 2, 20131 min read
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In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 1)
The burst pipeline runs through a golf course, a berry farm, a daycare center, rivers. People along the route wonder, What if it had...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 2)
The broken pipe snakes through a crucial Ark. watershed where there’s only one shut-off valve for the line, a fact that is making state...
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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UK’s Fracking Dilemma Continues
EcoWatch By Laura Beans “It’s little wonder communities don’t trust the Government over fracking when their rights are so clearly being...
Sep 4, 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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Drill next door: Here’s what it looks like when fracking moves in
By Erik Hoffner Grist guest contributorWhen my wife and I pulled into a relative’s subdivision in Frederick, Colo., after a wedding on a...
Aug 30, 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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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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Rules on Toxic Clean Up Chemicals Unclear as New Leak Pours into Gulf of Mexico
EcoWatch A U.S. Air Force chemical dispersing C-130 aircraft drops an oil dispersing chemical into the Gulf of Mexico as part of the...
Jul 12, 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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Fracking Independence Day: Frontline Group SAFE Appeals for Support and Action
Posted in Huffington Post by Jeff Biggers on 07/03/2013 The fracking rush in the heartland may have been unleashed by ill-conceived...
Jul 3, 201312 min read
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