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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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Why Are Cows Tails Dropping Off?
Evidence of food contamination on land that farmers lease to oil companies for fracking is not reassuring.
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Anti-Fracking Activists’ Secret War, With the World in the Balance
A loose network of activists is waging a guerrilla campaign not with improvised explosive devices or rocket-propelled grenades, but with zoning ordinances and petitions.
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Pinkwashing Fracking? How the Komen Board Is Cashing in on Shale Gas
Who, then, are the men behind Komenu2019s curtain?
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Fracking in Suburbia
About 79 gas wells have been drilled in Broadview Heights since 2005, including one well about 600 feet from Michelle Aini's house.
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Fracking Boomtown
Truthout reporter Mike Ludwig and videographer Andy Spear visited Carrollton, Ohio, to find out how the gas and oil rush can turn a small town upside down.
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The Environmental Health Costs of a Petrochemical Future
A chemical industry trade group is touting a job-creating side benefit of fracking in North Carolina, claiming that building a plant to process natural gas into the petrochemical products …
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New Yorkers Rally to Urge Governor Cuomo to Reject Fracking
The future of New York's water supplies and the health of its millions of citizens hang in the balance as Governor Andrew Cuomo decides whether to end the state's …
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Biologist and Writer Sandra Steingraber Invites Fellow Activists to Pledge Nonviolent Resistance to Fracking in New York State
"Hey, gas industry: I am not afraid of you. And that's not because I'm fearless. It's because I am so scared for the future of my children on a …
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The Gas Menagerie
Josh Foxu2019s documentary u201cGaslandu201d triggered a groundswell of opposition to fracking, the technology driving Americau2019s gas-drilling boom. Now, as the industry hits back, Fox and other Columbians are digging …
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Schlumberger Shutdown Joins Summer of Solidarity
Shaleshock organizers in New York's Southern Tier take their protest directly to the enemy's front door.