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How Rural America Got Fracked

Ellen Cantarow | Posted 05.21.2012

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Ellen Cantarow

Food or frac-sand: it's a decision of vital importance across the country, but one most Americans don't even realize is being made -- largely by multinational corporations and dwindling numbers of yeoman farmers in what some in this country would call "the real America."

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Oil and Gas Industry Moving Aggressively to Silence Critics

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.15.2012

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Brendan DeMelle

When environmental organizations try to publicize problems, the drilling industry flexes its muscles, making it nearly impossible to get their message out.

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EPA: Water Safe In Dimock, PA

Reuters | Posted 05.12.2012

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said drinking water is safe to consume in a small P...

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Federal Fracking Regulations Cover Only A Sliver Of Land

Posted 05.09.2012

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ProPublica's Lena Groeger Reports: Last week’s media coverage of the Obama administration’s newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on...

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Did Fracking Actually Contaminate This Town's Water?

Posted 03.21.2012

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ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten reports: When the Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that tests showed the water is safe to drink i...

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Mixed Water Test Results From Scientists And Feds?

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 05.16.2012

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SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Federal environmental regulators said Thursday that well water testing at 11 homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where...

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Why Does The Gas Industry Hate The F-Word?

AP | JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 03.28.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. The wor...

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Residents With Tainted Wells Receive EPA's First Water Delivery

AP | Posted 01.20.2012

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DIMOCK, Pa. -- A tanker truck has made its first delivery of fresh water to four homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where federal regulators...

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EPA To Start Sending Water To Town With Tainted Wells

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 03.20.2012

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will deliver fresh water to four homes in a northeastern Pe...

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EPA May Re-Test Town's Water For Fracking Contamination

Reuters | Posted 03.07.2012

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* EPA looking into possible contamination of water in Dimock * Some residents have long said fracking polluted the water * Findings could he...

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CDC Scientist: More Tests Needed To Determine Gas Drilling Impact On Health

AP | By KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 01.05.2012

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PITTSBURGH -- One of the government's top scientists says much more research is needed to determine the possible impacts of shale gas drilling on huma...

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Fracking In California? Not If These Groups Have Anything To Say About It

| Posted 02.18.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Tia Ghose The Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club are suing the Bureau of ...

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For The First Time, EPA Implicates Fracking For Causing Groundwater Pollution

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 02.07.2012

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking – a controversial method of ...

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Tom Zeller Jr.

EPA To Expand Federal Oversight Of Fracking Fluids

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 11.23.2011

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans on Wednesday to begin developing rules requiring makers and processors of certain chemical cocktai...

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Feds To Study Fracking In 5 States

Posted 08.26.2011

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By ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten The Environmental Protection Agency will focus its national st...

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Former Bush Official: 'Fracking' Exemption Went Too Far

Posted 05.25.2011

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ProPublica, March 9, 2011, 12:21 p.m. by Abrahm Lustgarten When Benjamin Grumbles was assista...

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EPA To Take A Closer Look At Fracking

Posted 05.25.2011

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From ProPublica's Nicholas Kusnetz: The EPA has propose...

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GOP Opposes Federal Fracking Regs Regardless of Whether EPA Finds Poisoning

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

In perhaps the most extreme step yet, Republicans in Colorado are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency never regulate fracking, "no matter what a two-year EPA study of the process reveals."

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EPA Takes New Look At 'Fracking' -- Natural Gas Drilling And Possible Water Contamination

AP | MARC LEVY and MARY ESCH | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — So vast is the wealth of natural gas locked into dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio that s...

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