Hydraulic horizontal fracturing, or fracking, is spreading around the country as companies exploit shale rock formations deep under the earth to extract both oil and natural gas. The three ingredients required are vast amounts...
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced during a year-end cabinet meeting Wednesday that the state will ban the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – for natural gas. This makes New York...
A coalition of local residents and state and national environmental groups held a series of protests this week against the construction of a natural gas export facility on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. FSRN’s Nell Abram...
Liberal ballot initiatives pass across country even as conservative candidates prevail Republicans win majority in U.S. Congress Q&A: Is the fracking boom a bubble that’s about to pop? San Francisco becomes latest city to...
The practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from shale formations has been both a lucrative and controversial practice. Energy companies say fracking technologies have allowed the U.S. to gain greater energy...
The NOs have it in Scotland’s independence referendum At least 700 migrants and refugees killed in recent Mediterranean shipwrecks Civil rights groups urge congressional action on racial profiling Pennsylvania parents call for buffers zones...
On the front lines of the fracking wars in western Pennsylvania, a group called Protect Our Children is fighting for a one mile buffer between schools and natural gas infrastructure; another group is even...
Israel launched ground invasion of Gaza Strip U.S. teen beaten in Jerusalem returns to Tampa FCC receives more than a million public comments on net neutrality Anti-fracking activists rally with opponents of LNG export...
On Sunday afternoon, about 2,000 people marched in the heat of mid-summer Washington,D.C., from a rally on the national mall to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; the first-ever demonstration at FERC. They were protesting...
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