Tag: fracking
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Oil and Gas Sector Ranks Number Two in Global Warming Pollution
THINKPROGRESS — When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, power plants are the 800-pound gorilla in the room. But a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows that oil and natural gas are a pretty sizable monkey …
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President Obama, Don’t Appoint a Fracking Proponent as Energy Secretary
FOOD & WATER WATCH — President Obama is considering naming Ernest Moniz, head of the oil and gas industry funded MIT Energy Initiative, as the next Energy Secretary. Moniz is a proponent of using natural gas as a …
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Yoko Ono Buys TV Ad Time to Speak to Gov. Cuomo About Fracking
ARTISTS AGAINST FRACKING — As the deadline for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision on gas fracking approaches later this month, Artists Against Fracking has stepped up its campaign calling for a …
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Fractured Land
FRACTURED LAND —Caleb is a part of a dynamic dialogue on sustainable, equitable energy development in Canada, a country whose antiquated resource extraction practices are systematically decimating a way of life reliant upon the air, water and land …
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Groups Urge EPA to Resume Legal Action in Fracking Water Contamination Case
Earthworks — Conservation and citizen groups from Texas and around the country today sent a letter calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Administrator Ron Curry to resume legal action against Range Resources for polluting the drinking water of …