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Coalition Denounces Legislation That Would Pave Way for Fracking in Illinois
Ecowatch 03-04-2013 Americans Against Fracking Following the introduction of a bill that would, in effect, serve as a road map for...
Mar 5, 20134 min read
AP: NY fracking held as Cuomo, RFK Jr. talk health
By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press | March 2, 2013 | Updated: March 2, 2013 2:08pm Go to article These 2013 file photos show New York...
Mar 3, 20135 min read
ALEC Sham Chemical Disclosure Model Tucked Into Illinois Fracking Bill
DeSmogBlog.com Thu, 2013-02-28 09:51 Steve Horn Illinois is the next state on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)‘s target...
Feb 28, 20136 min read
Red Light Green Light: Sierra Club Says No to Fracking in New York, Yes to Fracking in Illinois
Corporate Crime Reporter By Editor Filed in News February 27th, 2013 @ 7:00 pm Last year, Sierra Club members were in an uproar after...
Feb 27, 20134 min read
Industry, environmentalists mull “fracking” rules
Seth Perlman FILE – In this Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, speaks during a veto session at the state Capitol in...
Feb 21, 20134 min read
Groudbreaking Reports Show Fracking is a Risky Short-Term Bubble
Groundbreaking Reports Show Fracking is a Risky Short-Term Bubble EcoWatch Energy Policy Forum and Post Carbon Institute have released...
Feb 21, 20133 min read
Link Between Low Birth Weight and Fracking, Says New Research
By Kristen Meriwether Epoch Times Staff Created: July 19, 2012 Last Updated: July 31, 2012 (L-R) Senators Liz Krueger, Bill Perkins, Tony...
Feb 19, 20133 min read
Foul Water and Fracked Politics
Foul Water and Fracked Politics People’s Tribune February 2, 2013 By Cliff Protest against fracking in Southern Illinois. Crossville, IL,...
Feb 19, 20133 min read
Pennsylvania Clinic for Victims of Fracking: SW PA Environmental Health Project
Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project Go to their website Raina Rippel, Project Director SWPA Environmental Health Project...
Feb 19, 20132 min read
Pennsylvania: Shale permits not on ‘trigger list’ for extra review in poor areas
February 10, 2013 12:11 am By Don Hopey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The state Department of Environmental Protection has granted hundreds...
Feb 19, 20136 min read
Whose Fault? Scientists had long suspected frackers caused earthquakes. But when a dead fault unlea
Scientists had long suspected frackers caused earthquakes. But when a dead fault unleashed a 5.6 on Oklahoma, it rocked seismology to...
Feb 18, 20131 min read
Canadian National Farmers Union: NFU Calls For Moratorium on Fracking
Hydraulic Fracking a Danger to Water, Food, Farmland: NFU Calls For Moratorium Go to Canadian National Farmers Union website (Rimbey,...
Feb 18, 20132 min read
Reuters: Pennsylvania lawsuit says drilling polluted water
Reuters By Jon Hurdle AVELLA, Pennsylvania | Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:37am EST (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company...
Feb 17, 20134 min read
New York: A Victory for Fracking Activists Across the State
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to postpone decision on fracking pending further health study Ossining, NY –...
Feb 14, 20131 min read
Dumping of Toxic Fracking Wastewater Reaffirms Natural Gas Industry Free-for-All in Ohio
02-06-2013 Environment Ohio A week after the dumping of at least 20,000 gallons of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking waste into...
Feb 7, 20132 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
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
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
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