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Internal Documents Reveal How MSNBC Show Worked To Promote Fracking
On the issue of fracking for shale oil and gas, documents from 2011 obtained under Oklahoma's Open Records Act demonstrate that the network saw itself as a promoter of both the controversial drilling method and natural gas vehicles.
Whistleblower Says EPA Officials Covered Up Toxic Fracking Methane Emissions for...
An environmental watchdog claims the EPA is involved in a cover-up holding back information about the oil and gas industry.
Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails...
Emails show an aggressive effort to engage private energy companies and use Poland as part of a larger campaign to sell fracking throughout the region.
Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil...
A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells.
The EPA Hasn’t Updated Fracking Rules In Nearly 3 Decades. Now,...
“Waste from the oil and gas industry is very often toxic and should be treated that way."
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds State Power, Says Cities Can’t Impose Fracking...
The governor’s task force has failed to provide Coloradans with a way to protect their homes, families and futures from this dangerous, industrial activity.
Gov. Cuomo Rejects the Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win for the Anti-Fracking...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation just denied a key permit to companies seeking to build a 124-mile fracked gas pipeline.
Watch: River Explodes Into Flames From Methane Coming From Nearby Fracking...
Not only is the gas bubbling becoming more intense recently, but it is spreading to a greater length of the river.
10 Years of Fracking: Its Impact on Our Water, Land and...
“The best way to protect our health and climate from this dirty drilling is to ban it altogether and keep fossil fuels safely in the ground.”
Bernie Proposes Nationwide Ban on Fracking
Bernie Sanders focuses on the environmental issue of fracking this week while campaigning in New York and Pennsylvania.
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A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
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From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America
Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire
As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.
Iranian American scholars denounce US-Israeli attack, warn regime change efforts will backfire
Far from leading to a popular uprising against the government, as President Trump has encouraged, the U.S.-Israeli attacks have forced Iranians to worry about their immediate safety from the bombs.