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Illinois’ draft fracking regulations: haste makes waste
This is a recent blog from one of the lead attorneys who worked on the fracking regulatory bill in the spring, regarding the specific...
Nov 17, 20136 min read
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Fracking’s Dirty Little Secret
by Daryl Hannah and Diane Moss Fracking imposes unnecessary risks on public health and on our diminishing, yet most precious of...
Nov 15, 20131 min read
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Fracking the American Dream: Drilling Decreases Property Value
Drilling conflicts are almost always described in the context of their impacts on air, water and health. But increasingly, as the...
Nov 14, 20131 min read
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Industry Word Games Mislead Americans on Fracking
SkyTruth |November 8, 2013 3:34 pm | Comments By David Manthos Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, and other drilling...
Nov 11, 20131 min read
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Oil and Gas Regulations Fail to Protect Communities’ Water
A report was released today identifying and examining the dangers to water quality posed by oil and gas production in the states of...
Nov 8, 20131 min read
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North Dakota Fails to Disclose Hundreds of Oil Spills to the Public
A September oil pipeline spill is calling into question North Dakota’s lack of disclosure laws, which have allowed nearly 300 spills in...
Oct 30, 20131 min read
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Groups Petition BLM to Protect Fragile Wyoming Habitat From Oil and Gas Drilling
Drilling in the Douglas Core Area undermines the efforts of local residents and ranchers to protect sage grouse habitat. The male sage...
Oct 29, 20131 min read
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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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Fracking fluid blows out nearby well
kasa.com Cleanup costs, competing technologies at issue By Tina Jensen Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 9:52 AM MDT Published:...
Oct 21, 20132 min read
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Fracking by the Numbers: New Report First to Quantify Damage Done by Gas Drilling
News Release Contact John Rumpler, Environment America Fracking by the Numbers New Report First to Quantify Damage Done by Gas Drilling...
Oct 16, 20133 min read
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ND farmer finds oil spill while harvesting wheat
http://news.msn.com/us/nd-farmer-finds-oil-spill-while-harvesting-wheat?ocid=msnnws N.D.’s response to an oil spill the size of seven...
Oct 15, 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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Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in North Dakota, Public in Dark for Days Due to Government
Friday, 11 October 2013 10:32 By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog | Report Over 20,600 barrels of oil fracked from the Bakken Shale has spilled...
Oct 11, 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 Hard Numbers on Fracking: Radiation, Toxic Wastewater and Air Pollution
Friday, 04 October 2013 09:21 By Mike Ludwig, Truthout Kordite / Flickr)Researchers have found elevated levels of radioactive material...
Oct 4, 20131 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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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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Pennsylvania State Senator Announces Fracking Moratorium Legislation
EcoWatch By Laura Beans announced the introduction of the Natural Gas Drilling Moratorium Act, Senate Bill 1100, that would place a...
Sep 20, 20132 min read
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