“President Obama deserves praise for prioritizing climate change, but if he’s serious he needs to start by rejecting fracking for oil and gas. Fracking is a dangerous and toxic drilling process that greatly exacerbates climate change and threatens to put us over the edge. 400 ppm is a game changer that requires President Obama stand […]
Activists Convene at Wrigley View Rooftop to tell Democratic Governors to Reject Fracking Chicago, Ill.— Today, a coalition of grassroots organizations led by Americans Against Fracking, Food & Water Watch, Moveon.org, 350.org, Breast Cancer Action, Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Action, Frack Action and Progressive Democrats of America rallied at the Wrigley View Rooftop to […]
Over 100 Activists March at Democratic Governors Association Policy Meeting in Maryland for a Ban on Fracking Washington, D.C. – Today a coalition led by Americans Against Fracking, 350.org, Democracy for America and Food & Water Watch, among others marched at the Spring Policy Conference of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) calling for a ban […]
Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter on Behalf of Americans Against Fracking Washington, D.C.—“We are disappointed that the Senate has confirmed fracking proponent Dr. Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy. In his new position, Dr. Moniz will have the power to influence our nation’s energy future, helping to determine the forms […]
Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter on behalf of Americans Against Fracking Washington, D.C.— “President Obama’s comments that he supports accelerating liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports is great news for the oil and gas industry and bad news for the rest of us. It means that communities across the United States […]
Chicago, Ill.— A coalition of grassroots organizations including Americans Against Fracking, Illinois People’s Action and Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment (SAFE) have urged Governor Pat Quinn and Speaker of the House Michael Madigan to reject a bill pending in the state legislature that would lay legal groundwork for the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) […]
Consumer, health and environment groups to O’Malley: Don’t put oil and gas industry in driver’s seat; Ban fracking in Maryland Washington, D.C.— Americans Against Fracking and 24 national, state, and local groups representing public health, consumers and the environment, submitted a letter to Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, expressing serious concerns about the push to approve […]
Americans Against Fracking Urges Senate Leaders to Reject Dr. Ernest Moniz for Energy Secretary Washington, D.C.— As the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee conducts confirmation hearings to fill the position of Secretary of Energy, Americans Against Fracking, a broad-based coalition of public health, consumer, labor and environmental groups, today sent the committee a letter […]
Statement of Josh Fox on Behalf of Americans Against Fracking Washington, D.C.– “The Center for Sustainable Shale Development, a new greenwashing group backed by the oil and gas industry, will not mitigate the economic, environmental and public health threats posed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking). That is because no amount of regulations can ever make fracking safe. […]
Statement of Sandra Steingraber on Behalf of Americans Against Fracking Chicago, Ill.—”As science advisor to Americans Against Fracking, I salute Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) for supporting a moratorium on hydraulic fracking in the Land of Lincoln. The alternative, a regulatory bill co-authored by the oil and gas industry, would place Illinois’s […]
