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Author to speak on region’s environmental importance
BY NICK MARIANO, THE SOUTHERN CARBONDALE — Award winning author Jeff Biggers will present his take on progressive activism, linking...
Sep 9, 20131 min read
WORKER SAFETY: Oil and gas deaths reached record high in 2012
EnergyWire: Friday, August 23, 2013 The oil and gas industry lost a record number of workers on the job last year, according to new...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
New Study Finds Another Link Between Drilling and Earthquakes
A new study shows yet another link between oil and gas drilling and manmade earthquakes in Texas. The report, by scientists at the...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
Third Quake in a Week Hits East Texas Town
Click http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2013/09/06/third-quake-in-a-week-hits-east-texas-town/ to read this report from NPR. A small...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
Extraction Frontlines Organizing: Interview With Illinois South Founder Dave Ostendorf on Coal, Frac
Jeff Biggers Author of ‘State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream’ Posted: 09/06/2013 10:12 am at...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
Petition: Don’t let energy corporations silence kids about fracking with gag orders!
“Stop silencing children. Take immediate legal action to remove the Hallowich children from the gag order placed on their family, and...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
The Flip Side Of Obama’s Keystone XL Delay
Even as President Obama cast a veneer of caution over the Keystone pipeline’s northern half, he quietly expedited dozens of similar...
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...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 2)
The broken pipe snakes through a crucial Ark. watershed where there’s only one shut-off valve for the line, a fact that is making state...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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