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Jan 19, 20172 min read
EPA’s Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources
Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking Water Resources in the United States...
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Apr 15, 20141 min read
EPA drastically underestimates methane released at drilling sites
Also Ozone treaty, world wars slowed global warming, study says Small microbes almost killed all life on Earth, study suggests How much...
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Apr 13, 20141 min read
Report Offers Grim Predictions for South Texas Air Quality Amid Eagle Ford Oil Boom
State-funded study projects dramatic increase in emissions from oil and gas development by 2018. Jim Morris, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer...
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Apr 3, 20141 min read
Congress to EPA: Investigate and Address Water Contamination From Fracking
For the first time, members of Congress today called upon U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to...
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Mar 28, 20141 min read
Did Fracking Cause Earthquakes in Ohio?
Brandon Baker | March 12, 2014 12:34 pm | Comments The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has ordered Texas-based energy company...
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Jan 30, 20141 min read
No Pipe Dream: Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
Daniel Foster / Flickr)For the past several years, I’ve been writing about what happens when big oil and gas corporations drill where...
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Jan 7, 20141 min read
Research Links Proximity to Fracking and Low Birth Weight in Newborns
It maybe early in a new year, but already new research has been published which raises serious health concerns about fracking. What is...
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Jan 6, 20141 min read
Exxon to Face Criminal Charges for 50,000+ Gallon Fracking Wastewater Spill
By Emily Atkin Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy will have to face criminal charges for allegedly dumping tens of thousands of...
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Dec 26, 20131 min read
Inspector General Finds EPA Justified in Intervening to Protect Drinking Water from Fracking
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General found EPA Region 6 was justified in legally intervening to protect...
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Nov 20, 20131 min read
Setting the Record Straight on Fracking
By Sandra Steingraber and Wenonah Hauter Speaking before youth conservation leaders in California, Jewell cited what she called...
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Nov 18, 20131 min read
Does Homeland Security Think Fracktivists are Terrorists?
Sharon Wilson | November 15, 2013 3:22 pm | Comments According to comments made by Mark Grawe, chief operating officer at EagleRidge...
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Nov 15, 20131 min read
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...
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Nov 11, 20131 min read
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...
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Oct 20, 20131 min read
Supreme Court Preserves Victory Over Oil/Gas Development
Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. The park is known for its impressive geological wonders. (Darren J. Bradley / Shutterstock)...
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Sep 8, 20131 min read
In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 1)
The burst pipeline runs through a golf course, a berry farm, a daycare center, rivers. People along the route wonder, What if it had...
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Jul 30, 20131 min read
EPA official links fracking and drinking water issues in Dimock, Pa.
Matt McClain/The Washington Post – The headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. By Mark...
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Jul 30, 20131 min read
LA Times: EPA Censored Key Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study
A must-read Los Angeles Times story by Neela Banerjee demonstrates that – once again – the Obama administration put the kibosh on a key...
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Jun 27, 20132 min read
Questioning Obama
For Immediate Release June 24, 2013 PHYSICIANS, SCIENTISTS, AND ENGINEERS QUESTION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S DECISION TO HAND CONTROL OF...
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Jun 24, 20131 min read
WY Groups Call Foul as EPA Hands Fracking Groundwater Contamination Investigation Over to State
June 21, 2013 Earthworks Pavillion-area citizens, landowners and environmental groups today condemned Gov. Mead’s (R-WY) announcement...
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Jun 1, 20134 min read
EPA Documents Illinois Contamination History From Fracking Wastewater
With respect to the industry’s claim that there have been no documented or confirmed cases of water or land contamination, SAFE responds...
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