A Crash Course
A Crash Course This Website Is A Crash Course In Fracking

Can we benefit by this new source of natural gas without it affecting our water and lifestyle? This collection of bibliographic resources, government documents, letters, and videos is a crash course in fracking.

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No ConsensusHydrofracking in New York State: Poll Shows No Consensus

According to this NY1/YNN-Marist Poll, New Yorkers divide on the issue.  41% oppose hydrofracking while 38% support it.  A notable 21% are unsure.  Similar proportions of registered voters statewide share these views.

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Fight Childhood CancerMira's Movement

Do you know that pediatric cancer is the leading disease killer of children in the United States? That 35 children are diagnosed with cancer in the US every day? Do you know that, according to the National Cancer Institute, pediatric cancer as a whole received only $200 million for research in 2009?

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Energy TransitionsSystems Approach to Energy Transitions: Watkins Glen Conference, March 30-31
A Systems Approach to Energy Transitions: Presentations from the Conference held on March 30-31, 2011 in Watkins Glen, NY.
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FracFocusFracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry
Of all the lobbyists bringing their issues to Capitol Hill, the Groundwater Protection Council is one of the smaller players.  I have to wonder, reading the rankings on Open Secrets, "Lobbying Spending Database: Environment, 2009", why this groundwater organization spends less on its annual lobbying than "Fur Wraps the Hill" or the "Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy"?  Groundwater is a hot button national issue, affecting both the urban and agricultural sectors.
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A Life’s ValueA Life’s Value May Depend on the Agency, but It’s Rising

To protests from business and praise from unions, environmentalists and consumer groups, one agency after another has ratcheted up the price of life, justifying tougher — and more costly — standards...

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Strong PushStrong Push Against Fracking

Sens. Tony Avella, D-Whitestone, Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, and Joseph Addabbo, D-Queens, introduced a package of bills April 11 that includes three bills for tighter regulations and transparency for oil and gas drilling and a bill by Avella to ban hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, in New York State.

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Affirming GaslandAffirming Gasland

Immediately upon the film's release, Energy In Depth issued a paper claiming to "debunk" the film's documentary evidence.

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Academic Round-UpAcademic Round-Up | American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut
The Court heard oral argument in American Electric Power v. Connecticut on Tuesday.   The case raises questions about the role of the federal courts in addressing climate change.
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Big Polluters Freed from Environmental OversightBig Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus - The Center for Pu

In the name of job creation and clean energy, the Obama administration has doled out billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the nation’s biggest polluters and granted them sweeping exemptions from the most basic form of environmental oversight.

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Gasland vs Big Oil and GasGasland vs Big Oil and Gas

This works because people that see this movie are touched. They are touched because they have been directly affected by hydraulic fracturing or they want to be a voice for those that have been and don’t want to become a silent statistic as well.

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Authors

Paul T. Anastas
Tracy Bank
Maude Barlow
Wendell Berry
John Boehner
John Bredehoeft
Elizabeth Burns
George W. Bush
Robert Casey
Richard L. Cassin
Dick Cheney
Susan Christopherson
Theo Colborn
John Cole
Tim DeChristopher
Diana Degette
David Dzomback
Nora Eisenberg
J. Henry Fair
Josh Fox
Lee Fuller
Daniel Gilbert
Thomas Gold
Raul Grijalva
Walter Hang
Garrett Hardin
Tony Hayward
Sue Heavenrich
Maurice Hinchey
Nathaniel Hitt
Robert Howarth
Molly Ivins
Lisa Jackson
Brad Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Clifford Krauss
Barbara Lifton
Abrahm Lustgarten
Amy Mall
Peter Mantius
John McFarland
Jonathan McIntosh
Bill McKibben
Carl T. Montgomery
Robert Myers
Michael C. O'Connell
Ben Perkus
M. Ray Perryman
Rick Piltz
Louis Proyect
David Roberts
Mike Roselle
Helen Slottje
Kirk Smith
Leslie Stahl
Sandra Steingraber
Maura Stephens
Nicholas Stern
Ed Swartz
Ben Tettlebaum
Henry David Thoreau
Calvin Tillman
Ken Ward Jr.
Henry Waxman
Tom Wilber
Sharon Wilson
Hannah J. Wiseman
Bill Wolfe
The Yes Men
Mark Zoback