Tag: fracking
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Sandra Steingraber: Next 12 Steps to Stop Fracking in New York
SANDRA STEINGRABER — I’m calling you, again, to Albany, New York. Twice. Once on Wednesday, Jan. 30 and a second time on Monday, Feb. 4 …
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Blockade at PA Fracking Site Highlights Risks to Farms and Food
SHADBUSH ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COLLECTIVE — Residents of Western Pennsylvania and friends of Lawrence County farmer Maggie Henry locked themselves to a giant paper-mache pig today in the entrance to a Shell natural gas well site in order to protest the company’s threat to local agriculture and …
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200,000+ Comments Delivered to DOE Criticizing Economic Study on Natural Gas Exports
SIERRA CLUB — The coalition’s comments emphasize that liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports would lower wages and employment in the U.S., while enriching energy companies by billions of dollars, including …
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Fighting Unregulated Fracking in California
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY — California law applies safeguards and disclosure requirements to any underground injection carried out by the oil and gas industry, the lawsuit points out, and fracking clearly involves injection. Yet the state does not yet regulate or even monitor …
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Fracking and Farmland
OHIO ECOLOGICAL FOOD & FARM ASSOCIATION — “Farmers’ livelihoods depend upon the integrity of the soil, clean water and pollution-free air. Because of their reliance on the land, farmers are among those most at risk to suffer from the negative impacts of fracking. As the fracking industry grows in Ohio …