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Sickening, Literally: Over Half A Million U.S. Schoolchildren Attend School Within A Mile Of A Fracking Site

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Sickening, Literally: Over Half A Million U.S. Schoolchildren Attend School Within A Mile Of A Fracking Site
Mom, I Don’t Feel So Good: 650,000 U.S. Children Attend School Within A Mile Of A Fracked Well Of all the things we do to our children as a matter of course in the U.S., some are worse than others. We batter them with video and audio noise from birth, ply them with giant sodas and fried “chicken” nugget-things practically from birth, thus dooming them to lives battling obesity and type 2 diabetes, pollute their air, destroy their future climate–hell, destroy their future.… Read the rest

Living With Fracking: New Study Shows How Unhealthy It Really Is To Live Near A Fracking Well

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Living With Fracking: New Study Shows How Unhealthy It Really Is To Live Near A Fracking Well
Health And Fracking: New Study Proves Conclusively That Living Near A Fracking Well Is Bad For You There are certain things we can all take for granted once we’ve reached the age of say, 14 years old: parents aren’t perfect, there is no Santa Claus, and clowns are scary. Here’s another one that you would have thought would be an obvious truism: Living next to a fracking well is bad for your health.… Read the rest

EPA’s Own Science Advisory Board Scolds Agency For Shoddy Research On Fracking Impact On Water

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EPA’s Own Science Advisory Board Scolds Agency For Shoddy Research On Fracking Impact On Water
EPA: Fracking And Drinking Water Are Fine. EPA Advisory Board: ‘No. Bad Scientist!’ When your own science advisory board tells you that your science is bad, there is a problem. Especially when we’re talking about the Environmental Protection Agency–you know, the taxpayer-funded agency that is tasked with protecting not only the environment but also us humans and the animals that live in it from the depredations of big business and their polluting ways.… Read the rest

Banning The Ban: Colorado Supreme Court Rules Communities Not Allowed To Enact Local Bans On Fracking

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Banning The Ban: Colorado Supreme Court Rules Communities Not Allowed To Enact Local Bans On Fracking
Fracking, Yes, People No: So Says Colorado Supreme Court, Bans The Use Of Local Bans On Fracking If you have ever wondered just how far the legal framework has progressed that favors business interests over those of the people, you need look no further than Longmont, Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court has struck down a local ban on fracking in the city of Longmont, determining that the corporations’ interest in pulling gas and oil out of the ground supercedes any interest local people might have in breathing clean air, drinking clean water, and not having their tap water ignite in flames as it pours from the faucet.… Read the rest