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Report Shows How Fracking Industry Failure to Follow Regulations Impacts Human Health
Posted by EcoWatch: Stefanie Spear on January 27th, 2015
EcoWatch: A new report out today from Environment America Research & Policy Center shows that all types of fracking companies, from small to large, are prone to violating rules intended to protect human health and the environment. The report, Fracking Failures: Oil and Gas Industry Environmental Violations in Pennsylvania and What They Mean for the U.S., analyses Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry over a four-year period and found that the top offenders of regulations—averaging more than one environmental...
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Comments Off on Report Shows How Fracking Industry Failure to Follow Regulations Impacts Human HealthObama Seeks Wilderness Designation for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Posted by EcoWatch: Stefanie Spear on January 26th, 2015
EcoWatch: President Obama’s Administration moved to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, known as one of the most wild and remote areas in the world. The Department of the Interior announced yesterday the release of a conservation plan that recommends additional protections for the Refuge that asks Congress to designate core areas—including its Coastal Plain—as wilderness, the highest level of protection available to public lands. This is the first time in history that a Wilderness recommendation...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Obama Seeks Wilderness Designation for Arctic National Wildlife RefugeGlobal Frackdown on Saturday Calls Worldwide Ban on Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: Stefanie Spear on October 9th, 2014
EcoWatch: Global Frackdown is an international day of action calling for a ban on fracking. This year`s event on Saturday, Oct. 11 will send a message to elected officials across the globe that the future should be powered by clean, renewable energy, not dirty, polluting fossil fuels.
Climate scientists warn that continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic climate change. A report released in September by Food & Water Watch, The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking, shows how...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Global Frackdown on Saturday Calls Worldwide Ban on FrackingFracking, Fracking and More Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: Stefanie Spear on June 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: It`s virtually impossible these days to read, listen to or watch a news program that doesn`t mention hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Nearly every day, EcoWatch posts at least one article on fracking and last week was no different.
Big news last week was the announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it`s delaying from 2014 to 2016 the release of its study on the impact of fracking. In 2010, at the request of Congress, the U.S. EPA was mandated to conduct a study to...