Tag: fracking
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PA Residents to IL Governor: Ban Fracking
As the Illinois General Assembly votes this week on the state’s increasingly suspect fracking bill, residents affected by similar operations in Pennsylvania and frac-sand mining in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota took the extraordinary step today of rele…
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PA Residents to IL Governor: Ban Fracking
As the Illinois General Assembly votes this week on the state’s increasingly suspect fracking bill, residents affected by similar operations in Pennsylvania and frac-sand mining in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota took the extraordinary step today of rele…
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Nevada Fracking Bill Disregards Environmental and Human Health
The controversial technique—currently unregulated and unmonitored by state officials—is being proposed for use on more than 350,000 acres of public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management in central Nevada.
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Stop the Frack Attack, Idaho!
Now that oil and natural gas industry representatives have steamrolled every facet of state and county government, southwestern Idaho’s vital agricultural lands and recreational waters and forests could soon be poisoned by fracking around our rivers.
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Illinois Fracking Bill: A Worst Case Scenario
As part of this industry-friendly package, the bill gives legal standing to cost-cutting but unsafe and unhealthful practices. Loopholes allow flaring of natural gas, use of frack pits to store toxic drill cuttings and larger pits to store “unexpected”…