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California Shuts Down Fracking Waste Sites Fearing Aquifer Contamination
Officials ordered the immediate closure of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review of more than 100 others amid fears that companies pumped toxic fracking fluids into public drinking water.
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Fracking in British Columbia Is Running Wild – Rivaling Tar Sands Emissions
With a current gas boom producing some 73 million tons of greenhouse gases a year, British Columbia’s natural gas emissions could nearly equal those of Alberta’s tar sands by as early as 2020.
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Why U.S. Fracking Companies are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
From climate change to Crimea, the natural gas industry is supreme at exploiting crisis for private gain.
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Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
U.S. Energy Information Administration maps show landscapes so densely veined by gas pipelines – more than 350,000 miles of them run through the country – that they look like smashed windshields. The methane madness has to stop.
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Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction
If the record ongoing releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are aided and abetted by massive releases of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas, life as we humans have known it might be at an end on this planet.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Wants to Be Climate Leader – While Fracking Lots of Oil
In August, the 75-year-old, three-term governor signed into law SB4, ensuring fracking for at least the next two years while exempting the practice from thorough review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
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Exposed: EPA Censored Key Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study
The Obama administration put the kibosh on a key EPA study of groundwater contamination from fracking.
