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Charts: The Frackers’ Well-Oiled Political Machine | Mother Jones
How the domestic drilling frenzy fills campaign coffers and kills off accountability. —By Gavin Aronsen the energy election This spring,...
Nov 1, 20123 min read
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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
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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
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Bradshaw, Bigler stand with anti-fracking activists
CARBONDALE — Paula Bradshaw and Michael Bigler had a message for attendees of an anti-fracking rally Wednesday in Carbondale: We stand...
Oct 31, 20122 min read
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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
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Fracking to arrive in Southern Illinois by June
December 29, 2011 6:00 am • BY SCOTT FITZGERALD, The Southern Drill site selection for oil and natural gas exploration within 70,000...
Oct 29, 20123 min read
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Fracking finds opponents in Johnson County | The Vienna TImes
Author’s note: In the course of writing this article, outside of those interviewed for the story, nearly 100 percent of the people I’ve...
Oct 29, 20127 min read
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City of Carlyle Illinois Bans Fracking
The city of Carlyle has established the first legal precedent in Illinois that a non-home rule municipality can prohibit drilling for oil...
Oct 28, 20121 min read
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Oil and Gas Leases: Issues and Considerations
Leases do not include the same information that companies give to their shareholders. Landowners are not told the actual risks associated...
Oct 24, 20125 min read
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