Tag: fracking
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DOE Approves Second Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal
DeSmogBlog By Steve Horn Friday is the proverbial “take out the trash day” for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this last Friday was no different. In that vein, yesterday the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a conditional approval for the second-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal. LNG is the super-chilled…
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BLM Fails to Comply with Court Order, Refuses to Change Transparency Policy
Citizens for a Healthy Community Just more than three months ago, in a momentous victory for the public’s right to know and government transparency, U.S. District Court Senior Judge Richard P. Matsch ruled on Feb. 13, that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the public’s right to know when it concealed the identity of…
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Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy
President Obama selected Dr. Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his choice to run the DOE. His confirmation has received mixed responses from health and environmental advocates …
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SkyTruth Testifies Before Congress on Fracking Disclosure Rules
The hearing was entitled “DOI Hydraulic Fracturing Rule: A Recipe for Government Waste, Duplication and Delay.” SkyTruth’s testimony addressed the need for public disclosure of chemicals used in fracking.
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Breaking: Interior Department Bows to Pressure from Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules
EcoWatch The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial oil and gas development technique—in which drillers blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to force oil and gas from underground deposits—has been linked…