Category: Pennsylvania
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High Levels of Arsenic Found in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale.
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Chesapeake Energy Stops Holding NY Landowners Hostage In Fracking Leases
A day after news reports indicate that Chesapeake has decided to stop holding NY landowners hostage to leasing contracts signed years ago, New York and Pennsylvania leaseholders …
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Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age
To survive this era, humanity must become much smarter about this new kind of energy and then take the steps necessary to compress the third carbon era and hasten in the Age of Renewables before we burn ourselves off this planet.
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Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight in PA
If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern PA might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated natural gas drilling wastewater…
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Follow the Fracking Money All the Way to Keystone XL Conflicts of Interest
Most don’t think of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, when pondering the future of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline—but they should.