Category: Texas
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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 Parker County, TX residents’ drinking water from drilling impacts. At Sen. Inhofe’s (R-OK) request, the Inspector General investigated to determine if Region 6’s intervention against Range Resources was due to political influence by the Obama administration. [caption…
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Fracking Bonanza Threatens Texas Suburbs
By Julie Dermansky When a representative from Chesapeake Energy knocked on Phyllis Allen’s door in 2003 and offered $300 for her mineral rights and an invitation to a lease-signing pizza party, she turned them down. [caption id="attachment_314914" align="alignnone" width="500"] Phyllis Allen in front of a compressor station near her home. The first major city in…
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Fracking Victims Demand EPA Reopen Investigations Into Poisoned Drinking Water
Residents personally harmed by gas drilling and fracking held a press conference in front of the White House yesterday and delivered 250,000 petition signatures from concerned citizens across the U.S. to Environmental Protection Agency …
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Report Confirms Fracking Pollution Sickens Residents in Texas As Regulators Walk Away
A new report released today provides an important window into a disturbing national pattern regarding the oversight of fracking-enabled oil and gas development: regulators, charged with protecting the public, are actively …
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13 Arrested Protesting Keystone XL at TransCanada’s Houston Headquarters
Thirteen activists were arrested while staging a peaceful sit-in at the Houston TransCanada Headquarters in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. Dozens of Texans rallied nearby in support …