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Pennsylvania State Senator Announces Fracking Moratorium Legislation
EcoWatch By Laura Beans At a press event today, State Senator Jim Ferlo (D-Pittsburgh) announced the introduction of the Natural Gas Drilling Moratorium Act, Senate Bill 1100, that would place a moratorium on issuing new permits for fracking in Pennsylvania. He was joined by PennEnvironment, Food & Water Watch, other community and environmental advocacy groups,…
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Fracking and Colorado Flooding Don’t Mix
In time, the corporate press may turn to measuring the environmental damage these floods have caused wildlife and land, both public and private. But it’s doubtful, given the ruling elite’s bias toward oil and gas development everywhere in the state, th…
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Renowned Scientists Declare Human Activity the Root of Global Warming
With the International Panel on Climate Change report not yet published, there is already heated debate about what it will say, and about the implications of its findings for human development …
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How the Fracking Boom Impacts Rural Ohio
The shale gas drilling boom is not just a theoretical possibility for the 28,587 people of Carroll County, OH. They are already living with dramatic changes to the county’s woods and fields and rolling hills. This photo tour …
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Southern Leg of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Flunks Climate Test Too
What the report fails to mention, however, is the central fact that it is the 485-mile southern leg of Keystone XL already being constructed in Texas and Oklahoma—not the pipeline’s proposed northern leg—that will give TransCanada strategic access to …