Tag: Fracking Wastewater
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Four Lessons From the U.S. for Countries About to be Fracked
Methane, like carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. But methane is 105 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, making even modest leaks of methane dangerous to the stability of the climate.
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Dimock Residents Demand EPA Reopen Fracking Water Contamination Study
Dimock-area residents and activists personally harmed by the hazards of fracking gathered yesterday at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 office in Philadelphia, calling for the reopening …
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Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight in PA
If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern PA might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated natural gas drilling wastewater…
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New Poll Shows Californians Strongly Oppose Fracking
“There’s strong public support for a moratorium on this dangerous practice. We need to stop the oil industry’s fracking expansion now, while there’s still time to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink and the climate we depend on.”
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Hundreds Protest Radioactive Fracking Waste in Ohio
Teresa Mills, Buckeye Forest Council fracking coordinator, told the crowd at the rally that in the last 34 years, the oil and gas industry has injected nearly 8 billion gallons of toxic waste underground in Ohio, with over half a billion gallons inject…