Fracking

Fracking

  • Risk Assessments of Fracking Focus on Environmental Impacts, but Miss the Human Rights Implications

    Evadné Grant / Center for Humans and Nature

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 02/23/2018 - 12:00

  • NJ Governor Said He Wants to Stand up to Fossil Fuel Industry: So Will He Stop the PennEast Pipeline?

    Derek Seidman / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 02/16/2018 - 20:20

  • We Are Drowning in Plastic, and Fracking Companies Are Profiting

    Wenonah Hauter / Yes! Magazine

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 02/16/2018 - 11:37

  • America Dumps Its Fracking Waste in My Ohio Town

    Alison Stine / OtherWords  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 02/10/2018 - 13:05

  • Florida Is on Verge of Fracking Ban, Would Join Maryland, New York and Vermont (Video)

    Jackie Filson, Kiley Fisher / Food & Water Watch  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 02/08/2018 - 12:00

  • How Our Collective Failure to Properly Address the Climate Crisis Violates Human Rights

    Robin Bronen / Center for Humans and Nature  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 02/07/2018 - 12:00

  • 5 Million Gallons of Freshwater Used to Frack a Single Gas Well

    Lorraine Chow / EcoWatch  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 01/31/2018 - 23:19

  • A Fracking Company Is Suing a Victim of Its Own Pollution for Speaking Out (Video)

    Hope Forpeace / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 01/10/2018 - 20:30

  • There's a Progressive Silver Lining for Kentucky's Economic Future

    Emma Eisenberg / YES! Magazine

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 12/28/2017 - 19:44

  • Citizens Begin Reclaiming Coal Country After Decades of Corporate Land Grabs

    Emma Eisenberg / YES! Magazine

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 12/28/2017 - 19:26

  • 12 Foods Chefs Never Order at a Restaurant

    Melissa Kravitz / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 10/09/2017 - 23:30

  • Company Behind Dakota Access Pipeline 'Strong-Armed' Landowners and Protesters, Says Federal Lawsuit

    Sue Sturgis / Facing South  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 10/02/2017 - 12:00

  • House Science Committee: Russia Secretly Backed Anti-Fracking Campaigns

    Mary Mazzoni / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 09/03/2017 - 23:30

  • Fracking Has an Enormous Radioactive Waste Problem—Just Ask Kentucky

    Lorraine Chow / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 09/02/2017 - 23:30

  • Fracked Gas Pipeline Crossing Several States Sets Record for Environmental Violations

    Lorraine Chow / EcoWatch

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 08/19/2017 - 12:00

  • Why Is Bill McKibben Charging Up an Anti-Fracking Rally in a State That Banned Fracking? (Video)

    Stephen Kent / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 08/11/2017 - 18:00

  • Meet the Rural Pennsylvania Town at the Forefront of Environmental Law

    Jeremy Deaton, Mariana Surillo / Nexus Media

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 07/26/2017 - 12:00

  • Trump Administration Proposes Repeal of Fracking Protections

    Earthjustice  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 07/25/2017 - 13:00

  • Macaroni and Cheese Lovers Beware: Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Have Been Found in 10 Varieties

    Nika Beauchamp / Environmental Health Strategy Center  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 07/13/2017 - 12:11

  • How the Public Trust Principle Can Defend Human Rights Against Fracking

    Mary Christina Wood, Rance Shaw / Center for Humans and Nature  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 06/01/2017 - 12:00

  • Fight Back for Energy Independence Over Corporate Profits

    Lois Gibbs / OurFuture.org  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 05/30/2017 - 12:00

  • An Inside Look at the Horsemen of Our Apocalypse

    Jefferson Morley / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 05/26/2017 - 09:59

  • Frackers Don't Give a Frack About Our Natural Rights as Humans

    Andy Gheorghiu / Center for Humans and Nature

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 05/24/2017 - 12:00

  • Trump Has Displayed a Blatant Disregard for Science, Ethics and Human Rights Based on His Fracking Policies

    Wenonah Hauter / Center for Humans and Nature

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 05/15/2017 - 12:00

  • Rex Tillerson Has Been Misleading the Public About the Dangers of Fracking for Years (Video)

    Hope Forpeace / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 05/12/2017 - 23:30

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