Safe Drinking Water Act

A New Approach to Hydraulic Fracturing Safety

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Natural Gas Shales, Oil, Safe Drinking Water Act, Oil Shale, Horizontal Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

The recent boom in domestic oil and gas development, spurred by new technologies in geologic interpretation, horizontal drilling, completion techniqu...

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'Green News Report' - December 15, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.14.2012

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Arsenic a...

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Weekly Mulch: The Dirty Truth about Natural Gas and Energy Innovation

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Fracking, Energy Innovation, The Michigan Messenger, Epa, Renewable Energy, Texas, change.org, Safe Drinking Water Act, Diesel, Care2, Coal, Doe, Making Contact, Cane, Community-Led Groups, Wasps, Grist, Texas Observer, Americans for Energy Leadership, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The argument against natural gas got a boost this week, when a congressional investigation turned up evide...

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The EPA -- Judge Them by Their Enemies

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chemcial Industry, Environmental Protection Agency, House, Toxics, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Epa, Perchlorate, Right Wing, Safe Drinking Water Act, Lisa Jackson, Drinking Water, Corn Ethanol, Senate, Green News
John DeCock

The EPA may be the most effective agency in the Obama administration and they are delivering on their legal mandate to protect the environment and human health.

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Halliburton & Other 'Fracking' Companies May Have Violated Safe Drinking Water Act

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Oil and gas companies have injected more than 32 million gallons of fluids containing diesel fuel underground without first getting...

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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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Taking on Karl Rove

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Lessons from Dimock, PA: Calling for a Moratorium on Natural Gas Drilling in New York

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Fracking, Fracking, Gas Drilling, New York State Legislature, Delaware River, Natural Gas Drilling, Safe Drinking Water Act, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York, New York Gas Drilling, Nrdc, Moratorium, Fracking Moratorium, Natural Resources Defense Council, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, Riverkeeper, Hydrofracking, Dimock, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Green News
Mark Ruffalo

Do we take the dirty-energy money and run and screw the consequences? Or do we build something more sustainable that doesn't hurt the people around us? Which do you choose?

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Natural Gas Drilling: Calling on New York to Stop This Unnatural Process

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Fracking, New York, Fracking, Gas Drilling, New York State Legislature, Natural Gas Drilling, Safe Drinking Water Act, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York Gas Drilling, Delaware River, Green News
Mark Ruffalo

I don't know when America got to the point where someone can pour 590 chemicals into the ground with impunity -- where we have to argue for our right to know what's in our water and to protect our families.

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Scope of EPA's Fracking Study Raises Ire of Gas Industry

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Environmental Protection Agency, Indpendent Petroleum Association of America, Safe Drinking Water Act, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking, Dmitry Medvedev, Epa, Green News
ProPublica

A controversial upcoming study of hydraulic fracturing could affect Congress' decision whether to repeal an exemption that shields the fracturing process from federal regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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EPA Principles for Safe Drinking Water? I'll Drink to That!

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution, Water, Epa, Safe Drinking Water, Safe Drinking Water Act, Tsca, Drinking Water, Pollution, Clean Water Action, Green News
John DeCock

You may be able to judge if a glass is half full or half empty, but there is no such thing as a glass of water that is only half polluted.

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Millions In U.S. Drink Contaminated Water, Records Show

nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Treatment, Bad Water, Water, Contaminated Water, Water Treatment Systems, Safe Drinking Water Act, Dirty Water, Nytimes Contaminated Water, u.s. Contaminated Water, Green News

More than 20 percent of the nation's water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, acc...

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Natural Gas Industry Executives Come Out In Favor Of More Trasparency

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Pinkerton, Diana DeGette, Fracking, Range Resources, Chesapeake Energy, Natural Gas, Colorado, Safe Drinking Water Act, Aubrey McClendon, Denver News

The oil and gas industry is starting to see some cracks in its to-date united front against federal oversight of the common drilling practice known as...

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Underlying Questions Remain About Natural-Gas Drilling

Susan Cosier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Natural Gas Drilling, Marcellus Shale, DEC, Schlumberger, Bj Services, Haliburton, Epa, Benzene Contamination, Safe Drinking Water Act, Natural Gas, New York State Department of Conservation, Propublica, Groundwater Contamination, Green News
Susan Cosier

The race to drill for natural gas has never been so furious as it has been over the last few years. Yet, still lingering is the question of whether the process could contaminate groundwater.

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