August 31, 2013

Shale Gas Worse for Climate than Coal Over 20 Years

Two papers by Professor Robert Howarth of Cornell University, and others, show that shale gas produces more greenhouse gases than coal over a 20 year period.
August 30, 2013

TEDX Upcoming Events

View the TEDX (The Endocrine Disruption Exchange) Newsletter

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Exposure, Research and Regulation
Join us Thursday September 12th (9am Pacific/12 Eastern) for a jointly sponsored call with the Collaborative on Health and the Environment featuring Dr. Jerrold Heindel …

August 30, 2013

Petition: Reopen EPA Investigations into Fracking-Related Water Contamination

Sign the Petition to President Obama and EPA Administrator McCarthy
Petition Background
This week, the Los Angeles Times broke the story that EPA shut down a fracking-related water contamination investigation in Dimock, PA – featured in the documentary “Gasland” –
August 25, 2013

Fracking Boom Slouching Toward Bust

What’s an obscenity that starts with “f” and ends with “ck”?
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams, August 23, 2013

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. What’s an obscenity that starts with “f” and ends with “ck”?

Oh wait, sorry, …

August 23, 2013

Fracking Leaves Property Values Tapped Out

The one certainty about fracking, however, is that it doesn’t exactly do wonders for property values.
By Jason Notte, MSN Money, August 21, 2013

Depending on where you stand and what’s beneath the ground you’re standing on, fracking is either …

August 18, 2013

Fracking Boom Could Lead to Housing Bust

Fracking has the “potential to poison the real estate market”
By Roger Drouin, grist, August 16, 2013

When it comes to the real estate market in Bradford County, Pa., where 62,600 residents live above the Marcellus Shale, nothing is black …

August 16, 2013

NY Imports PA’s Radioactive Fracking Waste

Practice continues despite falsified water tests
By Peter Mantius, DC Bureau, August 14, 2013

Questions about the integrity of official water tests are stirring the latest controversy over New York State’s embattled policy of allowing imports of radioactive waste from

August 12, 2013

Jerusalem Sung To Honour Those Harmed in PA by Fracking

From Philip Carr-Gomm

Today 11th August 2013 at the anti-fracking protest in Balcombe, Sussex, England, we sang William Blake’s Jerusalem while the names of those harmed by fracking in Pennsylvania USA were read out. A deeply moving event with many …

August 10, 2013

Endless Water Tankers in Dimock, PA

From Vera Scroggins

I stood outside Ray Kemble’s home on this road with endless, water tankers going in both directions; full in one direction and empty in the other direction; it was overwhelming listening to the noise and seeing this …

August 10, 2013

Censored EPA PA Fracking Water Contamination Presentation Published

DeSmogBlog Publishes Censored Power Point Presentation
By Steve Horn, desmogblog.com, August 5, 2013

DeSmogBlog has obtained a copy of an Obama Administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fracking groundwater contamination PowerPoint presentation describing a then-forthcoming study’s findings in Dimock, Pennsylvania.

The …

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