Stories by Sabrina Artel

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Posted on: Oct 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Amid controversy, New York will embark on a health impacts study, but residents living in the gaslands are already speaking out about their experiences.

Posted on: Sep 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

South African farmers came to the U.S. to see what fracking might do to their land -- and what they learned terrified them.

Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The rally demanded that Congress take immediate action to protect our health and our water from the harmful effects of hydro-fracturing for gas and oil.

Posted on: Jun 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Unregulated fracking is happening in Los Angeles communities and residents are taking action and raising their voices in protest.

Posted on: Jan 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet

It's down to the final wire for public comments on the proposed regulations to allow for industrial gas drilling and fracking in New York.

Posted on: Nov 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The "Gasland" filmmaker talks about the threats not just from fracking, but from oil, coal and any number of extreme energy extraction methods.

Posted on: Sep 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo discusses his new organization Farmhearts, fracking, protecting our water and the future of our country.

Posted on: Aug 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet

"We spent three years trying to prove that fracking could be done safely, and what we learned is that it can't be done safely. It is incredibly dangerous; it is incredibly toxic."

Posted on: Jul 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explains how communities can fight corporate power with a new legal weapon.

Posted on: Jun 24, 2011, Source: AlterNet

If you think that nothing can be done on the local level to combat big polluters like gas fracking companies, think again.

Posted on: May 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Farmer Greg Swartz talks about trying to maintain an organic farm in the face of increasing gas drilling in rural Pennsylvania.

Posted on: May 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Filmmaker David Morris and organizers from Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy discuss why they're helping to lead the charge against fracking.

Posted on: May 5, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Julie and Craig Sautner of Dimock, Pennsylvania who live on Carter Road and are among one of 14 families there that have lost their water.

Posted on: Apr 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Major Calvin Tillman left his beloved community of Dish, Texas (that has 60 gas wells) to protect his family from the dangers of natural gas drilling.

Posted on: Apr 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

"We can't afford to get this wrong even once." Delaware River Basin residents talk about their fracking concerns.

Posted on: Apr 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Here's the threats that New York's water faces from fracking and what residents are doing to try and protect it.