Tag: fracking
EPA decides not to regulate fracking wastewater as Pennsylvania study reveals...
“Failure to update rules for the disposal and handling of dangerous oil and gas wastes is an egregious dereliction of duty and an intolerable threat to the health and safety of American citizens.”
Trump administration to open a million acres of public holdings in...
"Trump's plan would unleash a fracking frenzy that puts California's people and wildlife in harm's way."
‘Virtually no risk of drilling restrictions,’ West Virginia official tells fracking-reliant...
This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made...
Climate crisis be damned, ‘shale revolution’ poised to make US net...
New oil and gas development "will impede the rest of the world's ability to manage a climate-safe, equitable decline of oil and gas production."
England’s fracking policy unlawful, High Court declares
"The acknowledgement from the Judge, that climate change is a valid concern for campaigners and councils facing fracking planning applications, is a big win."
New warnings on plastic’s health risks as fracking industry promotes new...
And that's the heart of the problem – the rush to make plastics from cheap fracked shale gas in America hasn't been driving more polluting plants out of business, it's been adding to the world's new plastics production.
Fracking the world: Despite climate risks, fracking is going global
Yet governments around the world, the same ones which ratified the Paris Agreement, are supporting oil and gas companies as they seek to greatly widen fracking's global footprint.
Are investors finally waking up to North America’s fracked gas crisis?
It may take some time, but eventually investors wake up — or run out of money.
BLM lists sacred land outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in...
"Oil and gas has already devastated our state's air quality, water quality and flow, and public health. It's clear the Trump administration will stop at nothing to sacrifice public interest for private profits."
The fracking industry’s flaring problem may be worse than we thought
And even with the Trump administration rolling back a number of environmental regulations like the rules for methane flaring and venting, the oil and gas industry is looking for still more deregulation from the federal government.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US cities
Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.