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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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Damning EvidenceCatskill Citizens | More Damning Evidence About Fracking

Anyone not living under a rock must be aware of the mountain of bad news that's recently come to light about fracking.  Read Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy's  emails: informative, dedicated, and free.
Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy

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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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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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Skeptic SnubbingSnubbing Skeptics Threatens to Intensify Climate War, Study Says

Listening to climate change doubters, and not dismissing them, might avert a "logic schism" similar to the political stalemate on abortion, according to a new paper involving research on skeptics.

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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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EPA HF Draft Plan 2011Draft Plan to Study the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Wa

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public face-to-face meeting of the SAB Panel to conduct an independent review of EPA's Draft Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan.

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Gas Extraction Cover UpLeaked EPA Documents Expose Decades-Old Effort to Hide Dangers of Natural Gas Ex

Efforts by lawmakers and regulators to force the federal government to better police the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," have been thwarted for the past 25 years, according to an exposé in the New York Times.

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Worldwide Fracking RisksThe risks of oil and gas production acknowledged around the world
Government officials from around the world have recently declared that the risks of natural gas drilling are too great to allow it to proceed without additional analysis.
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Canadian Fracking SuitLawsuit against government, Encana highlights 'fracking' environmental issues

The lawyer leading a $33-million lawsuit against Encana, the Alberta government and the province’s energy regulator says the case speaks to broader environmental concerns across North America about fracking.

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