Tag: fracking
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FrackFinders Wanted
Do you care about fracking, have a computer, and are at least a little familiar with Google Maps? Then our friends at SkyTruth need your help to map fracking ponds across Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale. Today, SkyTruth is launching a crowdmapping tool called FrackFinder PA: Project Moor Frog in order to find all the ponds and impoundments that…
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Six-State Study Confirms Job Numbers Exaggerated by Fracking Industry
Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs than the industry and its supporters claim, according to a report released today by the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative, a group of state-level research organizations tracking the impacts of shale drilling. [caption id="attachment_312918" align="alignnone" width="531"] The oil…
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House Approves Bill to Fast Track Fracking on Public Lands
By a vote of 235-187, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved its latest giveaway to the oil and gas industry—a bill that would fast track the approval of fracking on public lands, according to Environment America. [caption id="attachment_312869" align="alignnone" width="500"] The bill approved yesterday is one of three anit-environmental, pro-industry bills expected to pass the…
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Explosive Growth of Fracking in Colorado Sparks Revisions to Air Pollution Rules
By Jesse Coleman With approval from major drilling and fracking companies, Gov. Hickenlooper (D-CO) has proposed a set of regulations to reduce pollution from methane and other dangerous gases leaked by the oil and gas industry. The rules are focused on fracking wells, a mostly unregulated drilling technology that has allowed an unprecedented increase in fossil fuel extraction in Colorado and…
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Setting the Record Straight on Fracking
By Sandra Steingraber and Wenonah Hauter Earlier this month, just days after voters in Colorado and Ohio went to the ballot box to protect their communities against the demonstrably dangerous oil and gas drilling process known as fracking, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell delivered a proclamation that only served to highlight just how much misguided faith the Obama…