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Mystery Illness and Mystery Smells: The Neighbors of America’s Fracking Boom Need Answers
Kay Allen is a nurse who deserves some answers. She works at a health clinic in Burgettstown, Pa. — in the southwestern corner of the Keystone State where the rolling hills are now pockmarked with fracking wells in a natural-gas gold rush. In one sense, Allen and her co-workers at the Cornerstone Care community clinic are like a lot of health care professionals across the suddenly overwhelmed Marcellus Shale region of Appalachia: [...]
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Deadliest Danger Isn’t at the Rig but on the Road
Oil Seeps and Slicks Studied Near BP’s Macondo Well
Tepco Chairman Plays Down Role in Disaster Readiness, Response
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Sand Mining Coming To A Town Near You
Japan Assembly Agrees to Restart Reactors, Hurdles Remain
Read More »Today’s Essential Reads FRACKING: Analysis: Insurers Find it Tough to Price Fracking Risk From water worries to well blowouts, the inherent risks of oil and gas extraction are often played down by those in the business. But another group of profit-seekers has every reason to keep a close eye on dangers for drillers: their insurers. On the News With Thom Hartmann: Vermont Will Soon Become the First State to Ban [...]
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Vermont to Be First State to Outlaw Fracking
Poll Documents Ongoing Emotional Harm From BP Oil Disaster
Japan To Take Over Fukushima Plant
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If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last couple of years since the word “fracking” entered our lexicon, it’s this: Natural gas drillers don’t want you to know what they’re up to. From the Oklahoma prairie to the forests of Pennsylvania, from the moment they get your name on a lease until the last tank of wastewater is dumped, these energy giants go to remarkable lengths to keep the public [...]
Read More »It’s one thing for bloggers like me or for environmental activists to tell you about the widespread devastation that was unleashed two years ago by the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill – especially the grim toll on the rich marine wildlife of the Gulf of Mexico. Many times at this site, I’ve informed you about a surge in dolphin deaths, shrimp without eyes, lesion-covered snapper and endangered sea turtles strangled or sickened [...]
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Critics: Fracking Proposals Fall Short
Gulf Coast Residents Remain Worse Off Emotionally Post-Spill
Japan Nuclear Ops (Zero Reactors Online Out of Total 50)
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