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California: The Next Frack Frontier?

By Andrew Grinberg, California Program Associate As the fracking fight comes to California, our state government is finally getting on the bandwagon and will begin to regulate the dangerous oil and gas extraction process. The Department of Conservation (DOC) issued the first draft of proposed
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Don't Bargain Water for Power

Fracking operations near a home in Armstrong County, PA

By Guest Writer, Marion Stoddart In a December 2 commentary in the Boston Globe, columnist Tom Keane wrote that "The key to American energy independence is ‘drill, baby, drill’ -- or perhaps more correctly, 'frack, baby, frack.'" Fracking
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Don't Frack Denver's Water

By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director What has separated the fracking wars in the Eastern U.S. from the Western U.S. is that New York City'sand Pittsburgh's watershed -- the place where these cities get their drinking water -- is proposed to be fracked. As you can expect, when millions of
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Ranking Retailers

By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director This post originally appeared on the Safe Chemicals Healthy Families Blog It’s December 11 th - just a few weeks before the holidays and three weeks until New Years Eve. If you’re like me, you’re a little bleary-eyed running around to finish up end-of
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Green for the Holidays

By Lily Dieck, Michigan Intern The New Year is fast approaching. As you plan your resolutions for 2013, I encourage you to play your part in protecting our environment by making small changes to increase your home’s green factor. Don’t worry, it’s easy and won’t burn a hole in your pocket after all
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