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Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
2013-02-21 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: [Authors note: On Sunday, Feb. 17, I marched with the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) at the Forward on Climate rally in Washington, DC. At one point, our banner, Cook Organic Not the Planet, caught the eye of a dairy farmer. He approached. I handed him a flyer and launched into my pitch about how organic agriculture has the power to bring dangerous carbon dioxide levels back down to the safe level of 350 parts-per-million. He nodded politely, then stopped me short with this If they frack...
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Science Over Politics: Cuomos Delay on Lifting Fracking Moratorium is Applauded
2013-02-21 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday, Anthony Ingraffea, president of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE), and Seth B. Shonkoff, executive director of PSE, sent a letter applauding Gov. Cuomo`s decision to delay lifting the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing until the science is complete. Dear Governor Cuomo: Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) applauds your move to delay your decision on lifting the moratorium on shale gas development in New York until the science...
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Fracking Emissions Get Review After EPA Watchdog Report
2013-02-21 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Federal environmental regulators said they will more closely study air emissions from hydraulic fracturing after the agencys auditor concluded current information is insufficient to make policy decisions. The Environmental Protection Agency has already begun an inter-agency study of methane, air toxic and other pollutants released when oil and gas are tapped using the process, called fracking, Gina McCarthy, the head of the agencys air office, said in a letter to the Inspector Generals office,...
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Day 3: Fracking Pipeline Protest Gains Momentum
2013-02-20 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Gifford Pinchot, from Orange County, NY, is staging a tree sit on a suspended platform to prevent clearcutting for construction of the Northeast Upgrade Project of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) between Foster Hill and Cummins Hill roads in Pike County, Pennsylvania, near the boarder of New Jersey. The Northeast Upgrade Project would transport Marcellus Shale gas from fracking wells along Pennsylvanias Northern Tier. Fracking is a controversial method of extracting natural gas, as it has been...
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Merkel warns of risks of fracking in Germany
2013-02-20 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany should tread carefully in developing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to tap shale gas reserves, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday, in some of her first public comments on the controversial drilling technique. Fracking has created a shale gas boom in the United States but it faces opposition in some European countries where critics say it could increase seismic risks and pollute drinking water. "New deposits of gas could very probably be tapped in Germany with this technology...
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