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An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale
An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale Those words are not the fired-up, angry rhetoric of a fracking activist but rather...
Dec 5, 20128 min read
Get Illinois Off Oil | Environment Illinois
The environmental costs of our oil dependence are out of control — from the accidents and spills, to smog, to climate change. It’s time...
Nov 30, 20122 min read
“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
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
Send Your Representatives “Gas Patch Roulette”
Counter industry denial: Send your representatives Gas Patch Roulette Earthworks released a new report last week, Gas Patch Roulette: How...
Nov 2, 20121 min read
Breaking All the Rules—The Crisis in Oil & Gas Regulation Enforcement
This report shows that states across the nation are betraying one of the basic agreements between government and the governed: to enforce...
Nov 1, 20124 min read
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
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
What is Hydraulic Fracturing a.k.a. Hydrofracking, Fracking?
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is most often referred to as the practice of injecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into...
Oct 23, 20123 min read
Southern Illinois, Earthquakes and Aquifer Contamination from Fracking
Due to the volume of toxic fluid left underground from hydraulic fracturing activities, Southern Illinoisans are at risk for aquifer...
Oct 22, 20122 min read
Fracking Our Water: CODE RED For Southern Illinois
Fracking will destroy our water supply. It consumes fresh water in quantities that are almost unimaginable. Just one well will consume 30...
Oct 21, 20122 min read
Drilling Doublespeak | Environmental Working Group
Gas Drillers Disclose Risks to Shareholders – But Not to Landowners As natural gas development has pushed into populated areas, gas...
Oct 21, 20121 min read
What you need to know about fracking | Environmental Working Group
Hydraulic fracturing has been around for decades. But now, natural gas producers are deploying a new gas drilling method called...
Oct 21, 20123 min read
Unearthed: The Fracking Facade – Video
Un•earthed: Setting the track record straight – A video exposing a flawed claim often abused in the sales pitch for promoting shale gas...
Oct 21, 20121 min read
Illinois First High Volume Horizontal Well
Just on the outskirts of Stephen A. Forbes State Park in Marion County, Illinois, a high-tech oil well nestled on secluded land owned by...
Oct 21, 20128 min read
Video: The Illinois Fracking Moratorium Movement
Produced by Cindy Green. Did you know there are Illinois residents who are already affected by existing drilling and frack water...
Oct 19, 20121 min read
New Report Confirms Fracking is Reckless « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environment
A new report on shale resources and hydraulic fracturing from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—an independent, nonpartisan...
Oct 16, 20124 min read
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
Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To 9% From Gas Fields, Gutting Climate
By Joe Romm Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reconfirmed earlier findings of high rates...
Oct 3, 20123 min read
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