Fracking

Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say "No" to Corporations?

By Mari Margil / YES! Magazine

Many communities trying to stop fracking, drilling, or big box stores out are finding they don't have the legal right to say no. So they are trying to change the structure of law.

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7 Ways Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Buy Positive Public Sentiment for Fracking

By Wenonah Hauter / AlterNet

Outrage Erupts After Energy Committee Evaluating Dangerous Gas Drilling Practice Is Stacked With 'Experts' on Industry Payroll

By Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Grassroots Groups Unite For Statewide Ban on Fracking in New York

By Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Feds Say Major New York Gas Pipeline Poses Safety Risk

By Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica

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Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Cancellation of Gas Leases and Drilling Plans in NE Pennsylvania

Tsunami of Public Outrage Builds in Colorado as Fracking Invades Cities

An Open Letter to President Obama from Gasland Director Josh Fox

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Fracking

The Liberated Keith Olbermann Is Making Powerful TV

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Banning Corporate Personhood: How Communities Are Taking the Law Back from Big Companies

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

State Fracking Rules Could Allow Drilling Near New York City Water Supply Tunnels

Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica

Open Letter to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo: Do Not Lift Fracking Moratorium!

Maura Stephens / AlterNet

Home Rule: How Communities Can Stand Up to Polluting Industries and Decide the Future of Their Towns

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Critics Find Gaps in State Laws to Disclose Hydrofracking Chemicals

Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica

Why We Need a National Ban on Fracking

Wenonah Hauter / Other Words

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: Why Food and Fuel Shouldn't Mix -- A Farmer Speaks Out On the Dangers of Fracking

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

The Food, Water and Health Crisis Surrounding Natural Gas Extraction

Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Advocacy Groups Urge President Obama to Protect the Drinking Water of 15 Million Americans

Food & Water Watch

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Speak Out Along With the Flimmaker of FRACK! The Movie

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

America's 10 Most Threatened Rivers

Environment News Service

Gas Drilling Companies Hold Data Needed by Researchers to Assess Risk to Water Quality

Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica

New Oil and Gas Drilling Techniques Threaten Utah's Cultural and Environmental Riches

Andrea Peacock / AlterNet

Fracking and Farming Don't Mix: Isn't It Time We Exhibited Some Precaution?

Matthew McDermott / TreeHugger

Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking

Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica

An Inside Look at What Happens When Gas Drillers Are Exempt from Environmental Law

Andrea Peacock / AlterNet

How a Gas- and Oil-Rich Area of Montana Wilderness Was Saved From Drilling

Andrea Peacock / AlterNet

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: What Happens When Gas Drillers Ruin Your Home and Water? You Fight Back.

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Maryland AG Threatens to Sue Company Responsible for Pennsylvania Fracking Spill

Nina Berman / AlterNet

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: Why a Mayor Was Forced to Leave His Town Because of Gas Drilling

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Why Did the Responders to a Pennsylvania Gas Well Accident Take 13 Hours and Need to Be Called in From Texas?

Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: New York Attorney General Threatens to Sue Feds If They Don't Study Impact of Fracking

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Why Are We Letting Fossil-Fuel Billionaire Pickens Write Our Energy Policy and Push for More Dangerous Gas Drilling?

Maura Stephens / AlterNet

Revealed: Confidential Document Shows Oil Company's Strategy to Con Landowners into Giving up Drilling Rights

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

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