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Why environmentalists turned against fracking bill
2013-09-13 10:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Late Wednesday night, when California's state Senate approved a hotly contested bill to regulate fracking and sent it to Gov. Jerry Brown for approval, it did so without the endorsement of some normally supportive environmentalist groups. The bill from State Sen. Fran Pavley had provoked intense opposition not just from the oil industry but from fracking opponents, who had been urging Brown to ban the practice outright. Word that he plans to sign the bill appears to have dashed those hopes, at...
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Exxon Mobil subsidiary faces criminal charges over 2010 fracking spill
2013-09-12 05:17:05| Chemicals - Topix.net
An Exxon Mobil subsidiary faces criminal charges in Pennsylvania of spilling more than 50,000 gallons of what the state attorney general described as "toxic wastewater" from a hydraulic fracturing operation.
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Flawed Fracking Bill Passes California Assembly
2013-09-11 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Senate Bill 4, which undermines existing environmental law and leaves Californians unprotected from fracking and other dangerous and extreme fossil fuel extraction techniques, passed the California Assembly today and will likely head to Governor Browns desk after a concurrent vote in the Senate. "This legislation does nothing to stop fracking or protect communities across the state from its harmful effects and last minute changes to the bill made it even worse," said Adam Scow, California campaigns...
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Criminal Charges Filed Against ExxonMobil Subsidiary in PA for Dumping Toxic Fracking Wastewater
2013-09-11 22:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Attorney General Kathleen Kane on Tuesday afternoon filed criminal charges against a Pennsylvania subsidiary of ExxonMobil for illegally discharging more than 50,000 gallons of toxic wastewater from a Marcellus Shale gas well site in Penn Township, Lycoming County. XTO Energy Inc., of Indiana, PA, was charged after evidence and testimony was presented to a statewide investigating grand jury, which recommended the criminal charges be filed, according to a news release from Kanes office. XTO...
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California Legislature passes fracking regulation bill
2013-09-11 22:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: A heavily lobbied bill that would give California the nation's toughest regulation of a controversial oil drilling technique won easy passage Wednesday from the Legislature. The bill now goes to Gov. Jerry Brown, who said Wednesday that he would sign it into law. At issue is the practice of hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. It is a process that involves injecting mixtures of sand, water and chemicals to free oil and natural gas trapped deep underground in shale formations. The...
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