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07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
What you need to know about Tim Kaine and his pro-fracking standing.
Even before Hillary Clinton announced her running mate last Friday, the press has been writing extensively about Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, who will speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention. (Article by Karin Kamp) When Kaine bounced up to the microphone in Miami on Saturday, where Clinton introduced him as her vice presidential pick, he […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
Another reason fracking sucks: Study links fracking to even more health problems
You know the old saying: “Another day, another study linking fracking to health problems.” (Article by Katie Herzog) A new study from the Yale School of Public Health links the chemicals used in fracking with potential reproductive and developmental problems. This isn’t exactly new — we’ve known for some time that fracking is connected with lowered sperm counts, […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
Fracking Contributes to Asthma, Exposure To Pollution & Stress Increase Children & Adults’ Need For Medical Treatment
Asthma is more common in children and adults living near fracking locations in the United States. An 8-year-study in Pennsylvania found that exposure to the pollution and stress caused by fracking operations is to be blamed for the people’s asthma attacks.  (Article by Samantha Finch) Asthma Medications More Common According to the study published this […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
Democratic party official platform is pro-fracking, pro-Monsanto, pro-TPP, and anti-GMO labeling
Progressives betrayed! Democratic party official platform is pro-fracking, pro-Monsanto, pro-TPP, and anti-GMO labeling | 26 July 2016 | …The democratic party openly supports fracking, Monsanto, vaccine mandates, chemical agriculture and the TPP. On top of that, they’re mostly opposed to GMO labeling, too. Only Sen. Sanders really stood up to the biotech industry on that […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
Pipeline Expansion Threatens U.S. Climate Goals, Study Says
Assessing the climate impacts of 19 natural gas projects, advocacy group says it guarantees high carbon emissions. (Article by Phil McKenna) Proposed new and expanded pipelines that would pump natural gas from the fracking hub in the Appalachian Basin to power plants and other consumers throughout much of the eastern half of the U.S. will […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
The Color of Pollution: How Environmental Contamination Targets People of Color
With about 42,000 active wells, Kern County, California is home to three-quarters of California’s oil drilling and 95 percent of the state’s hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activity. (Article by Larry Buhl) This mainly rural region is the largest oil-producing county in the U.S. The influence of oil and gas is so great here that in late 2015 […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
Anti-fracking campaigners keep up their protest
KEEP Wiltshire Frack Free (KWFF), the group fighting fracking in Wiltshire, has held two meetings in July to keep momentum up and discuss plans for future campaigning. (Article by Larry Buhl) The group met with Wiltshire Council on July 5 to try to persuade it to amend its minerals and waste policy, which concerns fracking, […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
FERCenomics and its ties to Pennsylvania water contamination
In March, a jury awarded $4.3 million to two Pennsylvania families that drank well water contaminated by methane. Gas wells drilled by an oil corporation leaked the methane into the water. As a result, the families suffered vomiting, dizziness and skin rashes. In April, a man in Salem, Pennsylvania, was burned in his home when […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
A Fracking Pipeline Puts Tim Kaine’s Fossil Fuel Industry Ties To the Test
DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate Sen. Tim Kaine is facing pressure from landowners in his home state of Virginia to stand against the planned Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to mid-Atlantic markets. (Article by Allen Brown) He’s made some moves in that direction: He’s held private meetings with […]
07/28/2016 / By frackingwatch
Court Voids Obama Administrations’ Federal Fracking Regulations
In a setback for the Obama administration’s effort to limit fracking on public lands, a federal judge struck down new regulations requiring companies to comply with federal safety standards in the construction of fracking wells and requirements to (Article by Bonner R. Cohen) In a setback for the Obama administration’s effort to limit fracking on […]
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