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Wishful Thinking About Natural Gas: Why Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels
The increased availability and decreased price of natural gas are likely to lead to an increase in US greenhouse gas emissions.
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Wine, Not Gas! New York Residents Fight Gas Storage at Lake Seneca
A company's five-year-long drive to store massive quantities of fracked gas in abandoned salt caverns, prone to collapse, is nearing conclusion, with the final decision up to Gov. Andrew …
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New York State of Fracking
Natural gas drilling and fracking done improperly or recklessly can be a threat to water safety.
California Halts Injection of Fracking Waste, Warning It May Be Contaminating Aquifers
The state's drought has forced farmers to rely on groundwater, even as California aquifers have been intentionally polluted due to exemptions for oil industry.
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Denton City Council Rejects Fracking Ban: Referendum Will Be on November Ballot
The Denton, Texas city council failed to pass a fracking ban in after an eight-hour meeting residents called “theater.”
Common Minerals: Lifeblood of the Economic System, Disappearing Along With Fossil Fuels
From our current depletable and polluting energy sources to the rare minerals that are vital to modern technology, the earth's nonrenewable resources are not far from disappearing, warns author …
Right-Wingers Advised to Invest in Water as Fracking in Drought Areas Prompts Activism
Some see this crisis in one of the essential needs for human life as an opportunity for profit.
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With the Plundering of Fossil Fuels, the Future May Be the Past: An Agrarian Society
As we exhaust the fossil fuels and minerals of the planet, we face the threat of exhausting the raw materials that built the modern world.
Protestors Say No to Fracked Gas Export Expansion Plan
Activists gather in DC over plans to expand Maryland's Cove Point facility into a liquidation and export terminal as safety risks and pollution concerns remain unanswered.
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Triumph for Citizens in Florida as Hughes Oil Company Drops Fracking Project
But without a moratorium on fracking, Florida is still not safe from the fracking industry.