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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 »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 »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:
US Proposes More Fracking Disclosure
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Status Conferences Scheduled
Utility In Charge of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Appoints New Management
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:
Gulf Coast Residents Say BP Oil Spill Changed Their Environmental Views
Protesters Target BP Expansion
Japan’s Govt Deems 2 Reactors Safe To Restart
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:
Shale Oil “Flaring” Is Dirty Secret of U.S. Oil Boom
No Sign of Oyster Recovery Two Years After BP Oil Spill
Japan Eases Limits in Nuke No-Go Zone for 1st Time
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:
Oil and Gas Industry Spends Big in Ohio Politics
Coastal Restoration: A Smart Investment
Arnie Gundersen at the Japan National Press Club
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:
Air Sampling Reveals High Emissions From Gas Field
BP’s Big Apple Alligator Stunt Bites
Fukushima Radiation May Be Killing Off Alaskan Ringed Seals and Other Arctic Mammals
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:
Is The Booming Natural Gas Industry Overproducing?
Master Plan Forgets Bayou Communities, Residents Say
Japan Task Force Kept No Records of Nuclear Crisis Response
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