A Texas town is ignoring its own test results to allow fracking to continue in violation of city ordinances and to the endangerment of local residents.
"It sets a floor for what the industry needs to do," said attorney Erik Schlenker-Goodrich of the Western Environmental Law Center. "The reality is we can do far better."
Jefferson Cowie, Dissent Magazine. March 25, 2012.
The PATCO strike has become the pivotal event in almost everyone’s understanding of the massive realignment of class power in the United States in the last few decades.
Drilling is just the tip of the iceberg. Compressor stations have been associated with significant headaches, bloody noses, skin lesions, blisters, and rashes.
His belief that EPA regulations of mercury, air toxics and CO2 will cause businesses to stop spending money is exactly the opposite of what analysts say would happen.
The deal has prompted fear that spending cuts would harm public health and that in the end, big, profitable oil companies would keep their existing government subsidies.
The threats to the Clean Air Act are coming from the Republican side of Congress, in bills to strip the U.S. EPA of funding and curtail its powers to regulate air emissions.
Should you be concerned when you walk outside your house and guzzle a deep breath of air, or should you go out for a run like the rest of the local folks do? Find out...
