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This Could Be the Start of a Rural Anti-Fracking Coalition
New Republic: This Could Be the Start of a Rural Anti-Fracking Coalition. Landowners who lease their land to gas companies aren’t always pleased with the results.
When I first met George Hagemeyer in 2013, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation was in the process of drilling six natural gas wells in his backyard. America is […]
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End fracking exemptions, a threat to maternal and public health
StatNews: End fracking exemptions, a threat to maternal and public health.
The adoption of safe, clean, renewable energy is an essential element for sustaining the U.S. economy and maintaining the health of its citizens. There are many paths to these goals. Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is not one […]
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California pushes to ban fracking and oil extraction
The Hill: California pushes to ban fracking and oil extraction.
Story at a glance
Newsom aims to halt oil production by 2045.
Scientists have warned fracking contributes to greenhouse gas release.
Some politicians have warned the moves will decimate local economies.
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DeSmogBlog, April 24, 2021
Articles include: Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?; The GOP Climate Push That Mostly Leaves Out Climate; Struggling to Make a Profit, Fracking Investors are Searching for the Exit; Oxford University Has Pledged to Divest from Fossil Fuels;
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EHN Sciences.org- April 9, 2021
EHSciences.org produces many links to environmental and health related stories. They are well worth subscribing to.
Above The Fold – Children’s News: DDT; PFAS; chemicals’ impact on male fertility; Black maternal health; children held in toxic detention centers; their ‘Fractured’ investigation; toxic heavy metals in baby food; federal support for […]
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“Someone Decided It Was Okay to Poison Us”
Mother Jones: “Someone Decided It Was Okay to Poison Us”. Small firms drill for oil in California neighborhoods with few restrictions.
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Nalleli Cobo was nine years old when her nose started bleeding, off and on throughout […]
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Biden infrastructure plan would spend $16 billion to clean up old mines, oil wells
PBS: Biden infrastructure plan would spend $16 billion to clean up old mines, oil wells.
President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines, a longtime priority for Western and rural lawmakers from both parties.
Hundreds […]
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Environmental Health News, March 26, 2021
Articles include: mystery chemicals found in pregnant women; Europe’s plastic boom and US fracking; US Chemical Safety Board & trump; Paraquat poisoning; Florida’s lead poisoning problem; pesticides in US streams; Study paper released last week on Florida manatees exposed to weed killer adds glyphosate; […]
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The Daily Climate, March 26, 2021
Articles include: Canada’s Supreme Court ruling on carbon tax; US carbon tax on O&G; promises of net zero carbon emissions; solar entrepreneurs; biomass; Congressional Review Act to reinstate methane rules; pro-fracking columnist is a denier; Massachusetts climate law; wind capacity not being built quickly enough; abandoning buses and trains; […]
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The Daily Climate, April 2, 2021
Articles include: Birds versus bees: Here are the winners and losers in the great pesticide trade-off; How climate change is stunting farm production; California’s rooftop solar program collides with equity concerns; Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds; Keep your Whole Foods gift […]
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