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Video: Unsafe conditions at fracking site
Randy Moyer, who trucked brine from wells to treatment plants and back to wells, now suffers from dizziness, blurred vision, headaches,...
Feb 13, 20131 min read
Presentation by MD on dangers and risks of high-volume fracking
Health Concerns From Unconventional Gas Extraction by Leslie Walleigh MD, MPH Go to Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project...
Feb 8, 20131 min read
Natural Gas Flowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety
Natural Gas Flowback: the Dark Side of the Boom How the Texas gas boom affects community health and safety Published: April 14, 2011 By:...
Jan 31, 20132 min read
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...
Jan 21, 20133 min read
EPA Changed Course After Gas Company Protested
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press WEATHERFORD, Texas January 16, 2013 (AP) When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his...
Jan 16, 20136 min read
Breaking: Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, TX Shale Gas Water Contamination Study
Posted at DeSmogBlog on Wed, 2013-01-16 11:15 by Steve Horn The Associated Press has a breaking investigative story out today revealing...
Jan 16, 20133 min read
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 14, 20133 min read
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
Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
Report from Duke University Read full report here: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/cgc/pnas2011.pdf Stephen G. Osborna, Avner Vengoshb,...
Jan 14, 20132 min read
5 Reasons Natural Gas Won’t Be an Environmental and Economic Savior
We aren’t going to be able to drill our way out of the climate crisis without creating an even bigger mess in the process. January 10,...
Jan 13, 20137 min read
America’s Secret Fracking War
It might not get as much media attention as the conflict in Afghanistan, but its stakes could be infinitely higher By Ellen Cantarow,...
Jan 9, 201311 min read
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
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
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
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 1, 20131 min read
Elected Officials to Protect New York, Press Conference
Published on Nov 16, 2012 550 NYS elected officials have pledged to “Elected Officials to Protect NY”. Binghampton Mayor Matthew Ryan,...
Dec 27, 20121 min read
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
MORE THAN 100 LEADING MEDICAL, SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS URGE WHITE HOUSE TO HALT RUSH TO EXPANDED SHALE GA
First, Do No Harm: Get the Health Facts Now Is the Message From Petitioners to Obama WASHINGTON, D.C.///December 13, 2012///Moving...
Dec 16, 20127 min read
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
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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