Category: Pennsylvania
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How Fracking Impacts Local Food
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — “Should the moratorium on hydrofracking in New York State be lifted, the 16,200-member Park Slope Food Co-op, in Brooklyn, will no longer buy food from farms anywhere near drilling operations …
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Groups Continue to Push for Transparency in Testing for Water Contamination from Fracking
EARTHWORKS — Questions and concerns continue to surround Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) water testing and reporting policies related to suspected impacts from Marcellus Shale natural gas operations. These issues were …
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Visiting Pennsylvania’s Destructive Fracking Footprint
ARTISTS AGAINST FRACKING — On Jan. 17, Artists Against Fracking co-founders Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon were joined by actor Susan Sarandon, peace leader Arun Gandhi, filmmaker Josh Fox and activists to lead members of the press on a bus tour of fracking sites in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Here’s a video …
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Pennsylvania DEP Ignores Stringent Testing for Water Contamination from Fracking
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — The whole issue revolves around how the Pennsylvania DEP tests and reports results for water supplies reportedly contaminated by fracking. Over the years …
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Pennsylvania Fracking Victims Come to New York to Share Their Stories
NEW YORKERS AGAINST FRACKING — As the state rapidly approaches the deadline to decide whether to allow fracking to go forward in New York, residents from across Pennsylvania came forward to tell legislators their stories. New Yorkers Against Fracking also released an ad …