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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

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

MAR 25: LNG Exports A Blank Check to Big Oil and Gas

Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch on Behalf of Americans Against Fracking Washington, D.C.— “The Obama administration has announced plans to approve a seventh liquefied natural gas facility. But who is he serving – Americans, or multi-national corporations that want to export gas overseas in order to find new markets […]

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corporations, fossil fuels, fracking, liquefied natural gas, Obama, Wenonah Hauter

MAR 13: Over 200 Groups Call on Obama Administration and Congress to Reject Fast-Tracking Exports of Natural Gas Overseas

Washington, D.C.— Following a push by the Obama administration and House Speaker John Bohener to fast-track natural gas exports as leverage against Russia in the growing tensions between the nation and Ukraine, Americans Against Fracking and allied organizations today called on President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and the United States Congress to reject […]

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fracking, John Kerry, LNG, natural gas, Obama, President Obama, Russia, Ukraine

MAR 6: Why Exporting Gas to Ukraine is not in our National Interest

Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter on Behalf of Americans Against Fracking. Washington, D.C.— “The unfolding crisis in the Ukraine and the related tensions between Russia and the European Union have become one more justification for increasing the production of natural gas in the United States and exporting it to Europe. […]

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Europe, European Union, ExxonMobil, fracking, natural gas, Obama, Russia, Ukraine, United States

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