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Texas Town Seeks Fracking Ban
2014-02-18 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Denton Drilling Awareness Group (Denton DAG) today announced they are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing within city limits. If approved by voters, Denton would become the first major Texas city to ban fracking, and the first city in the country to ban fracking after permits had been previously granted. The city and the state have repeatedly failed us, said Maile Bush, whose family is impacted by fracking-enabled oil and gas development. My family...
Fracking boom spews toxic air emissions on Texas residents
2014-02-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When Lynn Buehring leaves her doctor's office in San Antonio she makes sure her inhaler is on the seat beside her, then steers her red GMC pickup truck southeast on U.S. 181, toward her home on the South Texas prairie. About 40 miles down the road, between Poth and Falls City, drilling rigs, crude oil storage tanks and flares trailing black smoke appear amid the mesquite, live oak and pecan trees. Depending on the speed and direction of the wind, a yellow-brown haze might stretch across the horizon,...
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Fracking Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil & Bad Air on Texas Prairie
2014-02-18 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil and Bad Air on the Texas Prairie is an eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News, the Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel. Award-winning reporters reveal the dangers of releasing a toxic soup of chemicals into the air from oil and gas drilling and expose how little the Texas government knows about such pollution in its own state. They also show that the Texas legislature is intent on keeping it that way. The project blends traditional...
Texas Officials Turn Blind Eye To Fracking Industry's Toxic Air Emissions
2014-02-18 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In January 2011, with air quality worsening in Texas' booming oil and gas fields, state environmental regulators adopted rules to reduce emissions. The industry rebelled. So did the state legislature. A few months later, lawmakers passed SB1134, effectively preventing the new regulations from being applied in the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, one of the nation's biggest oil and gas booms. Since then, more than 2,400 air emissions permits have been issued in the Eagle Ford without additional...
Little chance of water for Texas rice growers
2014-02-18 08:21:27| Waste Management - Topix.net
Determination of whether there will be water for growing rice in Texas in 2014 from the Colorado River is still in the air, but it isn't looking good.
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