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Gas Rush: Fracking in Depth
As fracking spreads across the country, Truthout chronicles earthquakes, blowouts, political battles and a swelling grassroots opposition. Gas drilling is quickly changing the landscape in Washington and our own backyards, and it's time to hold the government and industry accountable.
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Special Investigation: Fracking in the Ocean Off the California Coast
The Pacific Ocean may be the next frontier for fracking technology.
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Gas Land
The Obama Administration has proposed new regulations for fracking on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands.
Former Mobil VP Warns of Fracking and Climate Change
Former Mobil Oil VP is speaking out about the dangers of fracking.
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Marcellus Shale Advocacy Group Receives $150,000 for “Independent Study”, While Health Impact Study Rots in Committee
Leaders in the GOP give another gift to the gas industry.
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Will Ohio Be Fracking’s Radioactive Dumping Ground?
Waste wells in Ohio have absorbed millions of barrels of waste from fracking. The Ohio Senate is expected to vote on a waste dumping proposal in June.
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Resistance in Ohio, Fracking’s Dumping Ground
Ohio has become a fracking dumping ground, with 179 wells absorbing more than 1 billion gallons of hazardous wastewater from the process from several states, and now legislators and …
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Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
As oil and gas get harder to find, the industry is drilling in suburbia - and the neighbors aren't pleased.
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The Mines that Fracking Built, Part Two
Mike Ludwig continues to cover the impact of fracking across the country.
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New York’s Zoning Ban Movement Fracks Big Gas
Frackivists won victories when an appellate court upheld the right to use zoning laws to ban gas drilling.
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The Mines That Fracking Built
The frack industry's demand for natural resources has pitted neighbor against neighbor in Cooks Valley.