Category: Pennsylvania
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Stopping LNG Exports Key to Preventing the Spread of Fracking
ECOWATCH — Here’s the nightmare scenario: LNG exporters, together with their gas-producing partners in the shale gas fields, are forced to take all of the necessary steps to ensure they don’t default on the terms of …
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Growing Green Awards: Healthy Food Coming to a Corner Store Near You
ONEARTH — Lack of access to affordable healthy food is a problem that plagues cities and towns across the country. In many of these communities, families depend on corner stores as a …
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Organic Farmers Struggle to Protect Land from Encroaching Fracking Industry
ECOWATCH — When they were signing leases to allow activity on their land, many farmers trusted the shale gas industry representatives who promised strict adherence to the highest standards to ensure no harm would occur from the drilling operations. But there are still many unknowns about the …
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Campaign Kicks Off to Ban Fracking in Michigan
COMMITTEE TO BAN FRACKING IN MICHIGAN — In Michigan we have the constitutional power to write our own laws through a ballot initiative and put them before the voters. Other states threatened by fracking, such as New York and Pennsylvania, do not have this option …
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Northeast States Prove Renewables Work in Reducing Carbon Emissions While Growing the Economy
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA — The success that these states are having in limiting pollution, promoting energy efficiency and shifting to renewables should give us the confidence that they can continue to show the nation and the world that it can be done …