TAG: fracking

Fracking Pollutes California Water While Individuals Suffer

Jefferey Jaxen – As California lawmakers decide if resident ‘water wasters’ should face jail time as a drought strikes the state, water agencies are busy working on higher rates and fees to penalize individual residents.

Does Fracking Bring Opportunities or Danger?

Video – A video that focuses mostly on the ongoing debate about fraking, how it may address our growing demand for energy versus the dangers it poses to our drinking water.

Why is Fracking Dangerous?

Infographic – Fracking carries known and unknown risks of harm for public health and the environment upon which public health depends. Here are some of the known dangers.

Fracking Used to Inject Nuclear Waste Underground for Decades

Aaron Dykes & Melissa Melton – Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth’s surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.

Is Fracking Really Dying?

Cliff Weathers – Are falling prices ​killing shale oil and gas, or ​will the environmental horror return?

How We Banned Fracking in New York

Sandra Steingraber – It was science that stopped fracking in New York. In 2008 when our moratorium was first declared, the state of knowledge about the risks and harms of fracking was rudimentary.

What’s to Blame for Our Dying Planet?

Catherine J. Frompovich – Every day, commonplace humans who live, work, and try to make ends meet are being blamed for ruining Planet Earth. Why?


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