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Revealed: How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer Atrazine

Beau Hodai, Lisa Graves, PR Watch. February 7, 2012.

A new investigation shows the global chemical company spent millions spinning news coverage and tracking journalists as concern grew over potential health risks of atrazine.

Gasland Director Josh Fox: Obama's Support for Natural Gas Drilling 'A Painful Moment' for Communities Exposed to Fracking

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. February 2, 2012.

Fox talks with Democracy Now following his arrest Wednesday while trying to film a Congressional hearing.

Was Lou Gehrig's ALS Caused by Drinking Water?

Wendee Holtcamp, Miller-McCune Magazine. January 31, 2012.

A toxic molecule found in pond scum may trigger neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Parkinson's. A group of scientists could hold the key to a cure.

Fracking's "Little Revolution": How a People-Powered Movement Fights Big Business for Clean Water

Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch.com. January 22, 2012.

Consider this, then, an environmental Occupy Wall Street. It knows no divisions of social class or political affiliation. Everyone, after all, needs clean water.

3 Ways Laws Are Stacked to Favor Fracking Companies -- And How We Can Change That

Peter Montague, AlterNet. January 19, 2012.

The U.S. legal system is strongly biased in favor of economic growth, even if it harms human health and the environment.

One More Day to Act: Gas Drilling May Begin in New York Soon

Sabrina Artel, AlterNet. January 10, 2012.

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.

Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes

Scott Thill, AlterNet. January 9, 2012.

When the mayor of Youngstown, Ohio decides to buy earthquake insurance, you know we've got a big problem.

Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers'

Karen McVeigh, The Guardian. January 6, 2012.

A former technician responsible for investigating and managing groundwater contamination for New York State opens up about risks from fracking.

Hope for Salmon as Dams Come Down

Jennifer Kaye, YES! Magazine. January 4, 2012.

The destruction of two Washington State dams will restore depleted fisheries, create jobs, and maybe even change how we manage our rivers.

How Canada's Become a Home for Some of the Biggest Fracking Projects

Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica. December 30, 2011.

As furious debate over fracking continues in the United States, it is instructive to look at how a similar gas boom is unfolding for our neighbor to the north.

The Fight Over Keystone XL Now Has A 60-Day Deadline -- Is This Good or Bad?

Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress. December 26, 2011.

With the new rush to approve TransCanada's tar sands pipeline, let's review some key facts that should underlie any analysis of the proposed 1700-mile project.

Goodbye 'Shop Til You Drop' Mentality: Renegade Band of Economists Call for 'Degrowth' Economy

Christine MacDonald, AlterNet. December 23, 2011.

The road to prosperity and happiness doesn't lead to the shopping mall, as most economists would have you believe.

Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?

Brad Jacobson, AlterNet. December 18, 2011.

FDA not only downplayed the risk of contamination, but ignored staff members who proposed higher levels of contamination protection.

The Fracking Industry Has Bought Off Congress: Here Are the Worst Offenders

Scott Thill, AlterNet. December 16, 2011.

Thanks to our morally bankrupt political system and the Supreme Court's ruling on Citizens United, the fracking lobby's power of the purse is huge.

The Mysterious Death of Dunkard Creek: Is Fracking to Blame for One of the Worst Ecological Disasters in the East?

Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. December 14, 2011.

Scientists have been left with more questions than answers after a massive die-off in an Appalachian stream near mining and fracking operations.

Arsenic Found in Water Near Coal-Fired Plants

AFPDecember 14, 2011.

The pollution -- in some cases more than 10 times the maximum contaminant level for arsenic -- is a direct health threat to thousands of residents.

Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]

Nina Berman, AlterNet. December 13, 2011.

Drilling is just the tip of the iceberg. Compressor stations have been associated with significant headaches, bloody noses, skin lesions, blisters, and rashes.

Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time

Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica. December 11, 2011.

The agency's findings could be a turning point in the heated national debate about fracking.

The Shocking Republican Attack on the Environment and Our Drinking Water

Sharon Guynup, Environment News Service. December 11, 2011.

Ensuring that Americans have clean water has been an effort with strong bipartisan support for four decades. But not anymore.

Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is up to Prepare for Melting Glaciers

Douglas Fischer, Daily Climate. December 8, 2011.

A Peruvian watershed has likely passed 'peak water,' dropping river flows 30 percent. New lakes are draining the Himalaya, and say good-bye to Rocky Mountains' glaciers.

New York Should Become the First State to Ban Fracking

Adelaide Park Gomer, AlterNet. December 6, 2011.

"We believe that the pillars of the 21st century are clean water and air, alternative energy, and economic justice," Gomer said upon receiving the Advocacy Award from Common Cause.

The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Civilization: Coming to the American West?

William deBuys, TomDispatch.com. December 4, 2011.

Think of the coming Age of Thirst in the American Southwest and West as a three-act tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions.

Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable Than Even the Most Environmentally Sensitive Traditional Farms?

Brendan Smith, AlterNet. November 30, 2011.

We know that big aquaculture operations can be a disaster, but small seaweed and shellfish operations offer a greener and cleaner solution.

Josh Fox: Are We About to Witness the Liquidation Sale of New York and its Drinking Water?

Sabrina Artel, AlterNet. November 28, 2011.

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

Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia's Forests?

Kylie Benton-Connell, AlterNet. November 21, 2011.

The question in Bolivia and all over the Global South is whether forests should be protected, for a price, and who gets a share of that money.

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