Tag: water
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Nevada Fracking Bill Disregards Environmental and Human Health
The controversial technique—currently unregulated and unmonitored by state officials—is being proposed for use on more than 350,000 acres of public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management in central Nevada.
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California Marine Plastic Pollution Policy Tangled Up in Committee
By reducing plastic pollution, birds, turtles, whales and other sea creatures are also better protected from the waste that often kills or harms marine life when they swallow or become tangled in plastics found in our oceans that may kill them …
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Swim at Your Own Risk: Federal Government Fails to Prioritize Water Protection
The Clean Water Act is our nation’s fundamental safeguard for water. Yet tens of millions of wetland acres—which protect drinking water, and provide crucial flood protection and wildlife habitat—have been effectively cut out of Clean Water Act …
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Dirty Energy Successfully Overturns Fort Collins Fracking Ban
The mere threat of a lawsuit from the only fracking company in town—Prospect Energy—was enough to send the city council cowering in submission, placing the entire town at risk of the negative health impacts associated with fracking.
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Five Arrested at Mountaintop Removal Protest
“Alpha is only profitable because they’re allowed to gamble with our lives—and we’re the ones who pay the cost of their negligence and toxic pollution …