Halliburton Loophole

Let's Stop Trying to Save the Environment; We Aren't Good At It, and It Isn't Working

Harris Silver | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Adam Smith, Sci-Arc, Environmental Policy, Fracking, Environmentalists, Haliburton, Charles Darwin, Environment, Hydrofracking, Environmentalism, Capitalism, Halliburton Loophole, Green, Occupy Wall Street. OWS, Harris Silver, Clean Water Act. Clean Drinking Water Act. Tsunami, Green News
Harris Silver

The way to save the environment is to save capitalism. And the way to save capitalism is to understand the role of government in protecting the commons through regulation and policy.

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Ken Salazar Says He'll 'Fully Consider' Congressional Input On Fracking Regulations

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diana DeGette, Natural Gas, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Fracking, Halliburton Loophole, Jared Polis, Denver News

Interior Secretary and former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar this week vowed to 'fully consider' congressional input as his department decides whether ...

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Exxon Subsidiary Investigated for 13,000 Gallon Fracking Fluid Spill Into Pennsylvania Waterways

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fracking Fluid, Pennsylvania, Fracking, Halliburton Loophole, Water Contamination, Epa, Exxon Mobil, Dimock, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Xto Energy, PA DEP, Dick Cheney, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a 13,000 gallon hydraulic fracturing fluid spill at XTO Energy's natural gas drilling site in Penn Township, PA.

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When Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: T. Boone Pickens, Delaware River, Laurence Fishburne, Fracking, West Virginia, Ohio, Gasland, Gas Drilling, NAT GAS Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Colorado, Wyoming, Csi, New York, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Dick Cheney, Virginia, Texas, Epa, FRAC Act, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, Halliburton Loophole, Louisiana, Water, Arkansas, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydrofracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Drinking Water, Michigan, Maryland, Green News
Mark Ruffalo

The only way we're going to defeat the gas industry and protect our water is if people become informed about its dangerous ongoing practices on a massive scale.

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Water or Gas? Karl Rove, Cheney, and Cohorts Weighing In On Key NY Race

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Crossroads, Karl Rove, Maurince Hinchey, Congressional Elections, Fracking, Oil and Gas Industry, Congress, Water Supply, Election, Gasland, Halliburton Loophole, Water, Contamination, Halliburton, Clean Water, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Robocalls, Green News
Alison Rose Levy

We can't allow private industry to go unchecked for the sake of profits.

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Taking on Karl Rove

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chief Oil & Gas, Fracking, Maryland, West Virginia, Colorado, Safe Drinking Water Act, Marcellus Shale, Clean Water Act, Dick Cheney, Virginia, Ohio, Hydrofracking, Colorado River, Delaware River, Karl Rove, T. Boone Pickens, Louisiana, Gas Drilling, NAT GAS Act, Texas, Pennsylvania, Citizens United, Clean Air Act, New York, Epa, FRAC Act, Maurice Hinchey, Midterm Elections, Halliburton Loophole, Michigan, Water, Wyoming, Arkansas, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Drinking Water, American Rossroads, Gasland, Politics News
Mark Ruffalo

2010-11-01-frackingflame.jpg Congressman Maurice Hinchey is right to ask questions of gas companies that want to begin using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from deep underground.

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Hydraulic Fracturing, Waterworld and the Toxic Avenger

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fracking Fluid, Gasland. Environment, Halliburton Loophole, Fracking Safety, Fracking, Green News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Fracking Water, Sustainability, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Who could forget Kevin Costner's best flick of all time, Waterworld. Melting polar ice caps, mutants, resource-wars, it had it all for those into pos...

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Bill Barrett Corp and the Halliburton Loophole Threaten Rockies

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Tavaputs Plateau, Oil Spill, Water Pollution, Roan Plateau, Department of Interior, Bill Barrett Corp., Halliburton Loophole, Bureau of Land Management, Hydraulic Fracturing, Ken Salazar, Nine Mile Canyon, Dry Canyon Compressor Station, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The use of hydraulic fracturing to get at hard-to-reach hydrocarbon supplies has lots of folks wondering whether the next fossil fuel disaster might happen in the Rocky Mountains.

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Weekly Mulch: As risks for oil and gas grow, USSF offers change

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York, Bp, Fracking, HD Mountains, Gasland, Gas Drilling, Epa, Halliburton Loophole, Ussf, Cabot Oil and Gas, Urban Farms, The Nation, Deepwater Oil Drilling, Sustainibility, Sierra Club, Pennsylvania, Colroado, Earthjustice, Regulaiton, Josh Fox, Dimock, Deepwater Horizon, Hydrofracking, Community Gardens, Blm, Natural Gas, Detroit, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger BP oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for more than two months, and while attention has focused t...

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How Cheney's Loophole is Fracking Up America

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, Fire Water, Hydraulic Fracturing, Halliburton Loophole, Green Energy, Natural Gas, Green News
Kevin Grandia

The chemicals used to extract natural gas are exempt from the Clean Water Act, despite the fact that they can make well water caustic and flammable.

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