Tag: fracking
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Experts Warn: Carbon Bubble Could Worsen Global Economic Crisis
TCKTCKTCK — The world could be heading for another major economic shock as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars, according to new research …
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New York’s New Abolitionists: The Fight to Stop Fracking
ELLEN CANTAROW — New York isn’t just another state. It has a history of legendary movements, from abolition and women’s suffrage in the nineteenth century to Occupy in the twenty-first. Its environmental campaigns have included …
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Groups Sue Interior Secretary to Protect California Public Lands From Fracking
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY / SIERRA CLUB — By opening up this land to oil exploitation, the Obama Administration is putting our air and water at risk of contamination by dangerous fracking chemicals …
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Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber’s Pursuit of a Healthy Environment
ECOWATCH — “The biggest obstacle in our way, not to diminish the power of the oil and gas industry, which I fully acknowledge is the wealthiest and most powerful industry on the planet, but it’s really the advanced resignation of the people that they are about to run over that is my biggest problem right…
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Another Reason to Ban Fracking: Obama Administration Approves Lax Guidelines for Radioactive Exposure
FOOD & WATER WATCH — When it comes to exposure to radioactive materials, how much is too much? If you’re like most people, or scientists, the answer is probably “any amount.” But the Obama administration …