Tag: ohio
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Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION — With hundreds of thousands of fracking wells and waste injection sites in the U.S., it’s likely that our food supply already contains water, plants and animals contaminated with fracking chemicals. While we hear a lot about …
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BREAKING: Ohioans Shut Down Fracking Wastewater Storage Facility
APPALACHIA RESIST! — Ohio residents and environmental groups including Earth First! have disrupted operations at Greenhunter Water’s hydraulic fracturing or fracking wastewater storage site along the Ohio River in Washington County, Ohio. Nate Ebert, a 33-year-old Athens County resident and member of Appalachia Resist!, ascended a 30 foot pole …
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Feds Charge Man in Fracking Wastewater Dumping Case
ECOWATCH — Federal prosecutors have charged a Northeast Ohio man with violating the federal Clean Water Act after dumping at least 20,000 gallons of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking wastewater into a storm drain that empties into …
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Two States Introduce Bills Requiring Genetically Engineered Food Labels
ECOWATCH — “Right now, consumers are in the dark about whether or not the food they buy and feed to their families is genetically engineered …
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Two States Introduce Bills Requiring Genetically Engineered Food Labels
ECOWATCH — “Right now, consumers are in the dark about whether or not the food they buy and feed to their families is genetically engineered …