Tag: fracking
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Shalefield Stories: Personal Accounts From the Frontlines of Fracking
Yesterday, Environment America Research & Policy Center joined residents living on the frontlines of fracking who recounted their stories of illness, water contamination and damage to their livelihoods due to dirty drilling operations in a new booklet, Shalefield Stories. The new booklet was released even as President Obama touted natural gas development in his State of…
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5 Ways Fracking Hurts Animals
By Kate Good We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road—the one…
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New Study Shows Proximity to Fracking Sites Increases Risk of Birth Defects
[caption id="attachment_319748" align="alignright" width="360"] Fracking in Colorado. Video screenshot: PBS[/caption] The dangers of fracking are no secret, but a study released this week shows the devastating impact the process can have on babies before they even have a chance to live their lives. The unborn children of pregnant women who live within a 10-mile radius…
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Video: Fracking the Land of Lincoln
A disturbing new video of poisoned water, leaking oil rigs, and lax enforcement at Illinois oil wells highlights why proposed fracking regulation won’t protect the state’s environment or people. The Greenpeace interview with a southern Illinois native and former oil worker shows a fracking test well in a neglected part of the state where weak enforcement at existing wells…
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President Obama Acknowledges Climate Change While Fully Supporting Fracking in SOTU
Tonight, President Obama during his State of the Union outlined the progress of his “all of the above” energy strategy. In his speech, he said: Now, one of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back is our commitment to American energy. The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and today,…