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How Can Obama Tackle Climate Change in His Second Term?
The EPA wants to cap carbon emissions from new power plants despite industry pushback.
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Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, Texas Shale Gas Water Contamination Study
The Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored a smoking gun scientific report related to shale gas contamination in Texas.
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Welcome to Blockadia!
The corporate push to construct tar-sands pipelines is transforming the environmental movement across North America by increasing the involvement of local residents and normalizing the use of direct action.
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Industry Consultants Warn Frackers: Do Not Underestimate the Global Anti-Fracking Movement
New report advises the industry to quell opposition by reforming its practices.
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America’s New Killing Field: Murder-Suicide on a Global Scale
It now seems that America's newest war zone is Earth itself as fracking and the pursuit of profit puts the entire planet on the brink of destruction.
Debate on Controversial Natural Gas Drilling Technique as New York Moratorium May Expire
New research by NOAA and the U. of Colorado says methane - a potent greenhouse gas - may be escaping from gas sites at much higher rates than previously …
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“Promised Land” Gives Only Partial Picture of Fracking’s Negative Consequences
Contamination of land and water is addressed; less so fracking's links to climate change, earthquakes, other problems.
Meet Anthony Ingraffea – From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
Dr. Anthony Ingraffea: My position is this. Where shale gas development has not yet occurred, ban it. Period.
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Rosy Forecast of Cheap Oil Abundance, Economic Boom a Myth
We have enough oil and gas to burn our way to climate catastrophe, but the age of cheap oil abundance is a myth.
Anti-Fracking Activist Discusses the Connection Between Human Rights and the Environment
Activist Sandra Steingraber: We canu2019t change the scale of the problem, so that means you have to change the scale of your actions.