Fracking Fumes Force Texas Resident to Close Business After a Decade
Buehring said she was forced to shutter the business because noxious fumes from the dozens of oil-and-gas facilities that surround her rural home and office became so overpowering she could no longer...
View ArticleMaryland Senate Pass Ban on Fracking – Nexr the House Vote
The natural gas extraction method known as “fracking” would be banned in Maryland until October 2017 under legislation approved Monday night by the Maryland Senate. By a 45-2 vote, senators sent the...
View ArticleGreenpeace Starts Countdown Clock Asking: Why is Obama Letting the EPA...
By Rick Hind, Greenpeace — When he was a Senator, President Obama championed legislation to prevent chemical disasters. On the Senate floor in 2006 he warned, “these plants are stationary weapons of...
View ArticleTWENTY-FIVE OHIO CITIZEN GROUPS PETITION U.S. EPA
This week large coalition of Ohio environmental and community groups sent a detailed, fifteen page demand to U.S. EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice documenting that Ohio’s program for approving...
View ArticleEPA Can Map Environmental Justice Communities – Can They Stop The Poisoning?
Today we know how to identify Environmental Justice communities but what is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doing to relieve their community burdens? A new mapping tool created by the...
View ArticleWe Are Together & Together We’ll Make Change
As fracking bans and moratoriums or local ordinances become a reality across the country, it would be so powerful for those who are advocating change to one piece of the problem or solution, to include...
View ArticleFamilies Expose to Toxic Chemicals Lives’ Matter
I am so frustrated and cannot understand how to win equal protection of health for all people. I’ve been doing this work for over thirty years and observed that unlike food contamination or infectious...
View ArticleGroups Threaten To Sue EPA Over Dangerous Fracking Waste Disposal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2015 Groups File Notice of Intent to Sue EPA Over Dangerous Drilling and Fracking Waste Call on Agency to Issue Rules for Handling and Disposal of Oil and Gas Waste...
View Article700 People Told EPA “Dig it Up -Take It Out”
YES! The people of Clark County, Ohio showed up last night in force…. Their Health District attendance counters stopped at 650, with more people coming in the door. US EPA’s Joan Tanaka said in all her...
View ArticleMan-made earthquakes
A group of state and federal agency employees came together with some of the biggest oil and gas developers to try to figure out how to stop injection wells from causing induced seismicity. The group,...
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