Groups Deliver Nearly 100K Comments About EPA’s Flawed Fracking Study Washington, D.C. – Today is the deadline to submit public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency in response to their highly controversial study about fracking’s impact on drinking water. Food & Water Watch, Environmental Action, Breast Cancer Action and other advocacy groups delivered nearly 100,000 […]
Breast Cancer Action, Center for Biological Diversity, drinking water, Environmental Action, EPA, Food & Water Watch, frackingWashington, D.C. – On the public comment deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed power plant rules, Americans Against Fracking, a national coalition to ban fracking, delivered a letter from over 250 environmental, health, labor and consumer protection groups, along with over 200,000 comments criticizing the rules for incentivizing fracked natural gas. You can […]
Americans Against Fracking, carbon emissions, emissions, EPA, fracking, methane, power plantComes After EPA Closed Investigation Into Contaminated Water, Refused to Meet with Affected Residents Philadelphia, PA – As President Obama heads to Philadelphia to speak at a Tom Wolf campaign event, local and national advocates called for the President’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure Pennsylvanians have safe drinking water and to stop ignoring meeting […]
Dimock, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fracking, Josh Fox, Obama, Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, water contaminationMarcellus-area Representative asks Administrator McCarthy to “take any and all action” to provide relief Washington, D.C. – For the first time, members of Congress today called upon EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to “investigate and address the water contamination” in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Parker County, Texas; and Pavillion, Wyoming. In all three communities, EPA has previously withdrawn […]
contaminated water, EPA, fracking, natural gasDuke University Water Tests Show Water Contamination Linked to Drilling and Fracking Persists, and EPA Inspector General Report Indicates the EPA Failed to Ensure That Clean Water and Public Health are Protected Washington, D.C.— Pressure on the Obama administration to take decisive action to protect Americans from the public health and environment effects of fracking […]
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