Category: Pennsylvania
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First County in U.S. Bans Oil and Gas Extraction
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND — Monday the County Commission of Mora County became the first county in the U.S. to pass an ordinance banning all oil and gas extraction …
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Shrouded in Secrecy: Industry Buries Fracking’s True Dangers
ECOWATCH — Wilber, author of the 2012 book Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, said the natural gas industry is different than almost every other type of industry in terms of the exemptions and the nondisclosure agreements under which it operates. All of this secrecy …
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Gasland II: From Broken Promises to Renewable Solutions
ALISON ROSE LEVY — Although the film is about fracking, its deeper subject is America in the early twenty-first century. What used to happen in the far away Third World or indigenous regions, is now going on in …
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Koch Brothers’ Plan to Buy Up Daily Newspapers Sparks Concern
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — New reports that the politically conservative Koch brothers are interested in buying the Tribune Company’s eight regional newspapers are sparking concerns from …
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Mock Wedding Illustrates Misguided Marriage Between Fracking Industry and Environmental Groups
OBERLIN ANTI-FRACK — A coalition of Pennsylvania and Ohio students and residents staged a mock wedding today at the EQT Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, to condemn the misguided union of corporations and …