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Fracking Review Period Needs a 180
Yesterday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (rdSGEIS) for high volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New York State. The...
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Exposing Fracking Money
Following up on our new report, Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets, about the mountain of money the fracking industry is building around legislators making decisions about the controversial drilling method,...
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WEBINAR: Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets
Hot on the heels of our new report that shows that the natural gas industry has spent $750 million to convince Congress that a controversial new drilling technique known as “fracking” should be exempt...
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Fracking Money in NY
In previous reports by Common Cause/NY entitled “Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets: Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in New York to Influence Public Policy,” we provided a detailed analysis of the...
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Filmmaker Arrested at House Committee Hearing on Fracking
Yesterday, “Gasland” filmmaker Josh Fox was arrested as he attempted to film a House subcommittee hearing on an EPA investigation into groundwater contamination in Pavillion, Wyo., potentially caused...
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Fracking in LA
Guest post by Joseph Edwards The Kenneth Hahn Recreational Fields, located in Baldwin Hills, in the center of Los Angeles, are home to several baseball fields, soccer fields and paved walkways. The...
View ArticleBob Edgar Talks Clean Environment, Clean Elections
A new independent film, Groundswell , documents the grassroots movement against hydraulic fracturing—the controversial and environmentally destructive natural gas extraction method commonly referred to...
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Time to bring the fracking lobby into the sunshine
What do fracking chemicals and political spending have in common in Ohio? Secrecy. Last year, the oil and gas industry and ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, helped pass a bill that lets...
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David v. Goliath in Colorado
Written by Sean Stewart Community-led movements for moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) have the Front Range buzzing this election season. Fracking bans are on the ballot in Boulder,...
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