Tag: Wyoming
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Fracking Victims Demand EPA Reopen Investigations Into Poisoned Drinking Water
Residents personally harmed by gas drilling and fracking held a press conference in front of the White House yesterday and delivered 250,000 petition signatures from concerned citizens across the U.S. to Environmental Protection Agency …
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Wyoming Coal Lease Sale Attracts Zero Bidders
“This is the beginning of the end of coal—it’s officially worthless. This is what happens when community after community replaces their aging coal plants with clean energy.”
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High Levels of Arsenic Found in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale.
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills Advance Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda in 2013
ALEC bills in recent years have pulled states out of regional climate initiatives, opposed carbon dioxide emission standards, created hurdles for state agencies attempting to regulate pollution and tried to stop …
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Leaked Report Shows EPA Censored Dimock’s Fracking Water Contamination Study
The EPA simply walked away and asked the public and the residents of Dimock to take its word for it. Indeed, the agency did not even mention the word “methane” at all in its press release announcing the end of the investigation …