In Pennsylvania, voucher proponents have spent more than $1 million on election season so far. Will the state set a national precedent in privatizing public schools?
Food & Water Watch joined with actor and WaterDefense.org founder Mark Ruffalo to tell the Army Corps to vote against proposed inadequate fracking regulations.
Drilling companies themselves have been diligently collecting water samples from private wells before they drill -- but they're not sharing the information.
Researchers found that levels of flammable methane gas in drinking water wells increased to dangerous levels when those water supplies were close to natural gas wells.
The AG said the legal action was necessary following a well blow out, which spilled thousands of gallons of fracking fluids across farm lands and into a vital waterway.
Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz, Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica. March 10, 2011.
Instead of ratcheting up oversight, PA's governor wants to hand authority over some of the state's most critical environmental decisions to an energy executive.
Officials have quarantined 28 beef cattle on a Pennsylvania farm after wastewater from a nearby gas well leaked into a field and came in contact with the animals.
