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EPA Pushes Back Fracking Impact Study to 2016
2013-06-21 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving back its timeline for release of its study on the impact of hydraulic fracturing from 2014 to 2016, the agency announced this week at the Shale Gas: Promises and Challenges conference in Cleveland, OH. The study, aimed at assessing the threats fracking poses to groundwater supplies and air quality, began in 2010 under the direction of Congress. The intent was to create a thorough assessment of the drilling method so states could make informed...
EPA abandons investigation into fracking pollution
2013-06-21 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The EPA is dropping its only investigation that has found evidence of water contamination from fracking. Following a three-year study of groundwater pollution around Pavilion, Wyo., the EPA concluded in a draft report in 2011 that fracking chemicals were a likely cause. The finding was obviously controversial -- frackers would like us to believe that injecting poisonous chemicals into the ground couldnt possibly poison water. Critics of the research found fault with the EPAs methodology and...
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Pennsylvanians Demand Clean Water and Moratorium on Fracking
2013-06-21 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Clean water activists and representatives from Clean Water Action, Sierra Club, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Berks Gas Truth gathered in the Capitol Wednesday to call on Gov. Corbett (R-PA) to speak publicly on the extent of water contamination from fracking for natural gas in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Director of Clean Water Action, Myron Arnowitt, said the rally was being held because many activists know that Pennsylvania will end up with dirty water if gas companies continue to work...
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Republicans and Democrats treat fracking like it's global warming
2013-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: The more liberals and conservatives know about science, the more they have wildly variant views about the risks of global warming, according to research by Yale's Dan Kahan. You might call it the "smart idiot" effect--knowledge, itself, seems to make people with diametrically opposed views more sure that they're right, and thus worsens the political fight over what is actually scientifically true. And recent research suggests that the smart idiot effect isn't limited to climate change--it also...
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EPA ends probe of Wyoming water pollution linked to fracking
2013-06-20 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Obama administration on Thursday dropped plans to further investigate preliminary federal findings that linked contamination of a Wyoming aquifer to natural gas drilling, following industry backlash that called the study into question. The draft report released by the Environmental Protection Agency in late 2011 sent shockwaves through the oil and gas sector, by finding that hydraulic fracturing fluids used in shale gas drilling had likely contaminated groundwater in Pavillion, Wyoming. Those...
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