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Cracks in the Facade: 25 Years Ago, EPA Linked “Fracking” to Water Contamination
By Environmental Working Group, Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel Go to website Download report August 3, 2011 An Environmental Working Group...
Jan 15, 20133 min read
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EPA Report on Pavillion, Wyoming
Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming December 8, 2011 Read full report here. Dominic C. DiGiulio, Richard...
Jan 14, 20137 min read
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Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
by Ellen Cantarow Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its...
Jan 6, 201311 min read
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Study shows air emissions near fracking sites may have serious health impacts
Colorado School of Public Health 19 March, 2012 View the official news release on the CU Denver Newsroom [Photo is Susan Wallace-Babb,...
Jan 6, 20133 min read
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Lawsuits from Families Harmed by Fracking
Read what families are going through in the face of fracking. These are real people, real families. This is their experience with...
Jan 5, 20132 min read
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Effects of Large-Scale Fracking Operations on Residents in West Virginia
West Virginia Host Farms Program This is a website showing how large-scale fracking operations are affecting residents, communities,...
Jan 2, 20131 min read
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Former Gas Field Worker Blows the Whistle
Published on Dec 20, 2012 Williamsport native and formal gas worker David Bean describes what life on the job used to be like: spills,...
Dec 26, 20121 min read
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AFL-CIO: Fracking Exposes Workers to High Levels of Silica and Other Health Hazards
05/22/2012 Ja-Rei Wang Click HERE to go to post If you work in the hydraulic fracturing industry—better known as “fracking”—you may be...
Dec 12, 20122 min read
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Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health
PHILADELPHIA – A coalition of academic researchers in the United States is preparing to shine a rigorous scientific light on the...
Dec 10, 20123 min read
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We can’t say we haven’t been warned
The latest alarms about fracking come from Pennsylvania residents who joined Delegate Heather Mizeur and others at a press conference in...
Dec 5, 20125 min read
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Fracking Our Food Supply | The Nation
This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an investigative reporting nonprofit focusing...
Nov 30, 201217 min read
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The PA-DEP Now Under Attack
At least two articles appeared Friday reporting the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection failed to protect rural residents...
Nov 5, 20122 min read
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Pennsylvania State Representative Jesse White calls for probe of Dept of Environmental Protection wa
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has created incomplete lab reports and used them to dismiss complaints that...
Nov 2, 20124 min read
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An Exploratory Study of Air Quality Near Natural Gas Operations
Read entire report click here. Peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (November 9, 2012). An...
Oct 31, 20121 min read
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Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview
TEDX — Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview. “Many of the chemicals found in drilling and evaporation pits are considered...
Oct 29, 20124 min read
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Chesapeake Testing ‘Green’ Fracking Fluids in Shale Wells – Bloomberg
SAFE comments: Development of environmentally friendly constituents for “slick water” used in fracking does not eliminate, reduce or...
Oct 24, 20122 min read
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Fracking Chemicals Final Resting Place: State-by-State Map of Underground Injection Wells
The data at the link below is from annual state regulatory summaries for underground injection wells that were submitted to the...
Oct 24, 20121 min read
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List of the Harmed | Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air
The following is an ever-growing list of the individuals and families that have been harmed by fracking or shale gas production in the...
Oct 15, 20121 min read
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Frack First, Disclose Chemicals Later Under U.S. Rule – Bloomberg
Oil and natural gas companies won’t be forced to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing until work is completed, under a...
May 4, 20122 min read
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