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German Brewers Warn Fracking Could Hurt Beer Industry
Environment  (tags: Fracking, frack is whack, activism, activists, destruction, ecosystems, green, conservation, water, pollution, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, energy, pollution, wildlife, healthconditions )

Cal
- 12 hours ago - news.yahoo.com
German brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel's government that any law allowing the controversial drilling technique known as fracking could damage the country's cherished beer industry.
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Fracking Can Cause Severe Problems for Well-Water Users, Poses Other Health Risks
Environment  (tags: Fracking, frack is whack, activism, activists, destruction, ecosystems, green, conservation, water, pollution, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, energy, pollution, wildlife, healthconditions )

Cal
- 1 day ago - norfolk.legalexaminer.com
In Ohio, it was recently reported that two residents who live nearby a fracking operation can literally set their water on fire due to the contamination the work has caused.
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TAKE ACTION: TELL CALIFORNIA DECISION MAKERS: DON'T FRACK OUR FOOD AND FARMS!
Environment  (tags: government, fracking, ethics, protection, humanrights )

Beverly
- 4 days ago - petitions.moveon.org
California is the largest producer of food in the U.S. Fracking and farming cannot co-exist. If we frack California's farms, we put the entire country's food supply at risk. Please stop auctioning off California's public lands to the oil and gas industry
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Tell the Bureau of Land Management: Ban Fracking on Federal Lands ACTION US
Environment  (tags: fracking, EPA, ecosystems, environment, health, science )

Nancy
- 5 days ago - act.credoaction.com
The BLM is accepting public comments on its proposed fracking rules for 30 days. We need to let the administration know that these rules are totally inadequate. The administration needs to ban fracking on public lands - not cave to the industry and endang
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Protect the Right of Communities To Say "No" to Fracking
Environment  (tags: Fracking, frack is whack, activism, activists, destruction, ecosystems, green, conservation, water, pollution, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, energy, pollution, wildlife )

Cal
- 6 days ago - forcechange.com
State and provincial governments should have the right to ban environmentally destructive practices like fracking, without having to worry about the intimidation tactics Lone Pine Resources is attempting to employ.
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Interior Department Bows to Pressure From Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules
Environment  (tags: Fracking, frack is whack, activism, activists, destruction, ecosystems, green, conservation, water, pollution, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, energy, pollution, fracking rules for public lands, Interior Department, wildlife )

Cal
- 7 days ago - ecowatch.com
The updated proposal eliminates protections included in the version proposed last year and fails to include safeguards demanded by environmental and public health advocates.
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Urge EPA: Tell the Truth About Fracking's Climate Change Impacts ACTION US
Environment  (tags: fracking, EPA, ecosystems, environment, health, science )

Nancy
- 7 days ago - org.salsalabs.com
EPA is underestimating fracking's impacts on climate change Urge EPA: use the latest, best science when calculating methane's impacts on global warming
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TAKE ACTION: TELL LONE PINE TO DROP ITS NAFTA LAWSUIT AGAINST QUEBEC'S MORATORIUM ON FRACKING!
Environment  (tags: conservation, climate-change, destruction, fracking )

Beverly
- 8 days ago - secure.sierraclub.org
Communities should have the final say on fracking and other projects that threaten water sources, the environment and public health -- and there should be no penalty for saying "no."
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Quebec Seeks Fracking Moratorium in Shale Gas Rich Area
Environment  (tags: Fracking, frack is whack, activism, activists, destruction, ecosystems, green, conservation, water, pollution, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, energy, pollution, wildlife, healthconditions )

Cal
- 8 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The Canadian province of Quebec, citing public concerns, unveiled a bill on Wednesday to impose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, in a region rich in shale gas deposits.
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MICHIGAN: Fracking Debate Heats Up as Drilling Projects Begin
Environment  (tags: Fracking, frack is whack, activism, activists, destruction, ecosystems, green, conservation, water, pollution, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, energy, pollution, wildlife )

Cal
- 11 days ago - detroitnews.com
The expansion of gas and oil drilling through a process called "fracking" is back as a hot-button issue in Michigan -- along with petitions, protests and armed security.
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Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
Environment  (tags: fracking, emerging industry, natural gas, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, secrecy, Dept. of Environmental Protection, (DEP), revolving door, exemptions from environmental regulation, carcinogens, toxins, fracking fluid, illness, death, accidents )

Judy
- 17 days ago - thenation.com
Farming communities are being turned into huge, open-air laboratories by energy companies--with ordinary people serving as guinea pigs.
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Fracking Well Meltdown Sends 9,000 Gallons Of 'Frack Fluid' Onto Farmland
Environment  (tags: EPA, Fracking, Fracking fluid, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania )

Judy
- 19 days ago - mintpressnews.com
A fracking site dumped more than 9,000 gallons of chemical-laden fracking fluid Tuesday near a farm site in Pennsylvania's Wyoming County, marking Carrizo Oil & Gas' second spill in two months.
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Huge Triumph for NY Towns Fighting Fracking's Risks
Environment  (tags: andrew cuomo, fracking, gas drilling, heatlh impact assessment, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, marcellus, natural gas, new york )

Judy
- 19 days ago - switchboard.nrdc.org
Yesterday, in a tremendous victory for local governments in NY, an intermediate appellate court affirmed two lower court decisions that held that municipalities have the right to exercise their traditional home rule powers to ban fracking within their bor
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New Yorkers Win Frack Fight at Local Level
Environment  (tags: Fracking, frack is whack, activism, activists, destruction, ecosystems, green, conservation, water, pollution, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, energy, pollution, wildlife )

Cal
- 19 days ago - ecowatch.com
Local residents and elected leaders in Dryden, N.Y. are celebrating victory in a closely watched case over local fracking bans.
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