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How Google Is Helping the Gas Lobby Support Fracking
Ads on Google have placed pro-fracking propaganda at the top of Google search results and into the middle of an important discussion on...
Nov 15, 20128 min read
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Press Release: Fracking for Support: Natural gas industry pumps cash into Congress – Common Ca
New report details 10-year spending campaign by fracking interests to avoid regulation Contact: James Browning 215-605-6315 Natural gas...
Nov 15, 20122 min read
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“Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health.” New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and
Documents animal and owner health problems with potential links to shale gas drilling. Describes the expansion of drilling and fracking...
Nov 15, 20121 min read
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Why Fracking Must Be Banned | Breast Cancer Action
Editor’s note: Sandra Steingraber is an acclaimed ecologist and author who explores the links between human rights and the environment,...
Nov 15, 20124 min read
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Landfarming | Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) | US EPA
The following description of Landfarming is an excerpt from Chapter V of OUST’s publication: How to Evaluate Alternative Cleanup...
Nov 14, 20128 min read
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How ‘Landfarms’ For Disposing Drilling Waste Are Causing Problems In Texas
Landfarms are privately-owned but state-regulated fields where “low toxicity waste” is thinly spread then tilled into the soil. The...
Nov 14, 20124 min read
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Carbondale leaders vote to block ‘fracking’
CARBONDALE, IL KFVS -Carbondale leaders voted to support a resolution that would stop fracturing in Illinois. http://www.kfvs12.com/story...
Nov 13, 20121 min read
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Illinois Peoples Action’s Accountability Meeting with Elected Officials: Ban Fracking (PICTURES / VI
Over 150 people attended a Saturday morning community meeting to oppose fracking in McLean County. Organized by Illinois People’s Action,...
Nov 13, 20123 min read
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More than 140 sign petition that calls for ban on fracking
NORMAL — More than 140 residents signed a petition Saturday that calls for a ban on fracking, the method of extracting oil or gas from...
Nov 13, 20122 min read
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