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 […]
AAF, ban fracking, fracking, Pocan, POPLA, public lands, SchakowskyData 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, […]
birth weight, fracking, Johns Hopkins, moms, mothers, natural gas, Pennsylvania, premature birth, public health, Sandra SteingraberGroups 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 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 […]
Earth Day, Food & Water Watch, fracking, Pocan, public lands, Schakowsky, Wenonah HauterWASHINGTON, 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 […]
ban fracking, blm, fracking, Obama, public landsMore 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 […]
Americans Against Fracking, fracking, Governor O'Malley, Maryland, O'MalleyWashington, 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 plantStatement 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: […]
China, climate change, fracking, Obama, oil and gas industry, United States, Wenonah HauterComes 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 contaminationReposted 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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