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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Toxic WastewaterDespite overhaul, gas wastewater still a problem

Pennsylvania's natural gas drillers are still flushing vast quantities of contaminated wastewater into rivers that supply drinking water, despite major progress by the industry over the past year in curtailing the practice.

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Yes: It Takes a LiePeabody coal company threatens to sue over getting punked

Change.org, the website that allows users to create petitions for social change, received a legal threat from Peabody Energy after Coal Kills Kids (CKK) -- a group that partnered with the Yes Men to unveil a faux Peabody charity initiative earlier this week -- continued the hoax with a mock petition.

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Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has SaidFirm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said

Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq.  "Iraq's different," he said...

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Water From Gas WellsRegulation Is Lax for Water From Gas Wells

...the relatively new drilling method — known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking — carries significant environmental risks.

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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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Waters of the U.S.
Americans depend on clean and abundant water. However, over the past decade, interpretations of Supreme Court rulings removed some critical waters from Federal protection, and caused confusion about which waters and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act.
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Clifford Krauss: propagandistClifford Krauss: propagandist par excellence

I especially enjoyed his reporting on how some environmentalists are for gas drilling despite the inflammatory water faucets and cancer clusters:  You don’t have to be working at FAIR to ask the question which environmentalists? -Louis Proyect.

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Strange Disasters[Two of] the Seven Strangest Man-Made Disasters

An Insurance industry blog by Jared Wade. Strange Disasters includes a story about a crater in Turkmenistan caused by scientific laissez-faire about natural gas extraction.

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Karoo Gas-Drill FreezeSouth Africa Endorses Plans For Karoo Gas-Drill Freeze, Ending Shell Hopes

South Africa’s Cabinet endorsed the Department of Mineral Resources’ decision to declare a moratorium on natural-gas drilling in the Karoo region, halting plans by Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company.

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Boil a Frog and MoreSociety of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Members' Blogs and Websites

A list of blogs by members of the Society of Environmental Journalists covering the environment.

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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