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No Holiday for Hunger

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Summer Nutrition Programs, Food Stamps, Snap, Jim Weill, Frac, Child Hunger, School Lunch, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

We don't usually equate "summer vacation" and empty stomachs. Did you know child hunger and food insecurity often peak in the summer? An overwhelming majority of children who receive free meals at school aren't as lucky once school lets out.

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How Will We Feed 18 Million Hungry Children When School Lets Out?

Kim Doyle Wille | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Hunger, Share Our Strength, Feeding America, Frac, Food Pantry, Mobile Food Pantry, School Lunches, Gardening, Child Hunger, Food Shelters, Spring-Into-Action, Impact News
Kim Doyle Wille

Last Thanksgiving, I spent two days documenting hunger at three food pantries. At the first pantry, children in sweaters sweetly asked volunteers if t...

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Still Hungry in America

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Food Insecurity, Poverty in America, Child Poverty, Frac, Hunger, Poverty, Food Stamps, Child Hunger, War on Poverty, Hunger in America, Food Research and Action Council, Child Hunger in America, Fighting Hunger in America, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Last year more Americans relied on food stamps to eat than at any time since the program began in 1939 -- 46 million. Yet once again some voices are starting to wonder whether we really need robust anti-hunger programs in America.

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Responding to the Hydraulic Fracturing Issue

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frac'ing, Regulations, Water, Environment, Frac, Hydraulic Fracturing, Chemicals, Clean Water Act, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

Hydraulic fracturing will continue to be a controversial issue for the near future until we, as an industry, get our arms around the real environmental risks and embrace the public's concerns about this necessary completion technique.

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The Hydraulic Fracturing Dilemma, and Danger

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gasland, Frac'ing, Frac, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil and Gas Industry, Horizontal, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

It's time for the industry to take a pause on frac'ing, similar to the pause we continue to experience in the deepwater, and take the time to determine harmful practices and materials, then replace these techniques with safer operations.

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Natural Gas Documentary Affects Garfield County Commissioners On Federal Legislation (VIDEO)

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Garfield County, Split Estate, FRAC, Natural Gas, Diana DeGette, Ken Salazar, Fracking, Halliburton, Colorado, Denver News

GLENWOOD SPRINGS -- Everyone was a film critic Monday at a somewhat tense screening of the new anti-gas-drilling documentary "Split Estate" for the Ga...

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