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Groups Pressure Congress with 350K Petitions to Ban Fracking on Public Lands

October 22, 2015 / / Press

Washington, D.C. (Thursday, October 22, 2015) — Today, representatives from Breast Cancer Action, Courage Campaign, CREDO, Center for Biological Diversity, Daily Kos, Deluge, Environment America, Environmental Action, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, National Nurses United, The Other 98%, People Demanding Action, People for the American Way, Presente.org and Progressive Democrats of America gathered outside […]

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AAF, ban fracking, fracking, Pocan, POPLA, public lands, Schakowsky

Statement from Americans Against Fracking Re: Comprehensive New Study Linking Premature Births and At-Risk Pregnancies to Fracking

October 14, 2015 / / Press

Data on over 10,000 pregnancies in Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2013 show odds of premature births increase 40 percent when expectant mothers live in heavily fracked communities Washington, DC — In peer-reviewed research published last week in Epidemiology, a high-impact public health journal, scientists from Johns Hopkins, Brown, UC-San Francisco and UC-Berkeley reported that shale gas drilling, […]

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birth weight, fracking, Johns Hopkins, moms, mothers, natural gas, Pennsylvania, premature birth, public health, Sandra Steingraber

EPA’s Fracking Study Draws Criticism from the Public

August 28, 2015 / / Uncategorized

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 […]

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Breast Cancer Action, Center for Biological Diversity, drinking water, Environmental Action, EPA, Food & Water Watch, fracking

APR 22: On Earth Day Pocan and Schakowsky Introduce Strongest Federal Fracking Ban in the U.S.

April 22, 2015 / / Press

Washington, D.C. — On Earth Day, U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), members of the Safe Climate Caucus, introduced the Protect Our Public Lands Act, H.R. 1902. The legislation is the strongest anti-fracking bill introduced in Congress to date and would ban fracking on public lands. “Our national parks, forests and public […]

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Earth Day, Food & Water Watch, fracking, Pocan, public lands, Schakowsky, Wenonah Hauter

MAR 20: Obama Admin. Releases Toothless Fracking Rules; Give-Away to Oil and Gas Industry

March 20, 2015 / / Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized rules regulating the practice of hydraulic fracturing – commonly called fracking – on public lands. As the BLM itself admits, this rule advances the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy policy, which aims to expand domestic oil and gas production. Even though BLM has […]

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ban fracking, blm, fracking, Obama, public lands

DEC 8: Americans Against Fracking Denounces Maryland’s “Gold Standard” Fracking Regulations

December 8, 2014 / / Press

More Than 40 National, State and Local Organizations Delivers Letter to Governor O’Malley Washington, D.C. – Today, Americans Against Fracking, along with over 40 leading national, state, and grassroots organizations, delivered a letter to Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s office condemning his decision to lift the moratorium on fracking in Maryland. The signatories include Progressive Democrats […]

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Americans Against Fracking, fracking, Governor O'Malley, Maryland, O'Malley

DEC 1: Hundreds of Thousands of Americans and Over 250 Organizations Voice Concern that EPA’s Power Plant Rules Will Incentivize Fracking

December 1, 2014 / / Press

Washington, 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 […]

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Americans Against Fracking, carbon emissions, emissions, EPA, fracking, methane, power plant

NOV 12: U.S. and China’s New Climate Targets will Promote More Fracking

November 12, 2014 / / Press

Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch on Behalf of Americans Against Fracking Washington, DC – In response to today’s joint announcement between the United States and China to reduce their countries’ respective carbon emissions, Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch released the following statement on behalf of Americans Against Fracking: […]

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China, climate change, fracking, Obama, oil and gas industry, United States, Wenonah Hauter

Oct 31: Activists Call for Obama’s EPA to Protect PA Residents from Contaminated Water from Fracking

October 31, 2014 / / Press

Comes 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 […]

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Dimock, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fracking, Josh Fox, Obama, Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, water contamination

OCT 9: Pinkwashing: Fracking Company Teams Up With Susan G. Komen to ‘End Breast Cancer Forever’

Reposted from EcoWatch By Sandra Steingraber What do you get when you cross a breast cancer charity with a frack job? The answer is the image below, which, as I am writing, is going epidemically viral. It’s hard to stop staring in utter baffled amazement. Is it some kind of … phallic cyborg? The opening scene […]

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fracking, pinkwashing, Sandra Steingraber
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