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Study: Babies born near natural gas flaring are 50 percent more likely to be premature
Daily Climate discusses why babies born near natural gas flaring are 50 percent more likely to be premature. Researchers link air pollution from burning off excess natural gas to preterm births for babies; with the most pronounced impacts among Hispanic families.
Living near fracking operations that frequently engage in flaring—the […]
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Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears
The New York Times discusses Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears. Oil and gas companies are hurtling toward bankruptcy, raising fears that wells will be left leaking planet-warming pollutants, with cleanup costs left to taxpayers.
The day the debt-ridden Texas oil producer MDC Energy filed for […]
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‘We’re fighting for our lives down here’
Santa Fe New Mexican discusses water and the fossil fuel industry in New Mexico. To get an idea of how important water is out here, you only need glance at the ground. Alongside the dusty ranch roads carving up the desert plain outside this small town, networks of thick, […]
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This Is What It Looks Like When a Texas Oil Boom Busts
The Wall Street Journal discusses what it looks like when a Texas oil boom busts. A year ago, the Permian Basin region was one of America’s hottest labor markets, fueled by a fracking gold rush. Today, the oil field has all but shut down, and everyone is feeling the pain, […]
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Reaction mixed to environmental grand jury findings
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette discusses various reactions to grand jury findings that show that fracking is dangerous to peoples’ health.
A statewide grand jury investigating environmental and health impacts of the shale gas industry heard testimony that some children exposed to emissions from those operations develop a painful condition that looks […]
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How George Floyd protests swayed a Texas fracking town
E&E News discusses how George Floyd protests swayed a Texas fracking town.
mid the national discussion about racial injustice, the City Council rejected a plan this week to expand a natural gas well site after residents said it would have a disproportionate impact on Hispanic and black residents.
The 6-3 vote […]
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A POWERFUL PETROCHEMICAL LOBBYING GROUP ADVANCED ANTI-PROTEST LEGISLATION IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC
The Intercept discusses how a petrochemical lobbying group advanced anti-protest legislation during the pandemic.
ONE DAY AFTER West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s shelter-in-place orders went into effect, the governor quietly signed into law the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the law created new felony penalties […]
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‘Their greed is gonna kill us’: Indian Country fights against more fracking
The Guardian discusses why Indian Country fights against more fracking. Expansion of drilling in New Mexico would threaten sacred artefacts and bring public health risks to area still reeling from Covid-19.
Sage had a theory for what was happening: underground vibrations from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, forced the snakes from […]
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