Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvanians demand a fracking halt until rare childhood cancers are investigated
Hundreds rural Pennsylvanians, along with Mark Ruffalo and Shailene Woodley, sent a letter to Governor Tom Wolf.
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How should communities cope with the end of coal? Advice from the frontlines.
"If there's no more coal left, then there's no more mining. And that's going to happen in my lifetime."
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Pennsylvanians are complaining their water is fracked up. Now what?
For those with contaminated wells, state regulators aren’t acting fast enough.
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Philadelphia invests in fresh food to fight obesity — but will it work?
A $900,000 investment by the city will put fresh foods and refrigeration systems in several hundred stores – despite evidence showing it may not have an impact.
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Pennsylvania gives Shell a sweet, crude deal
In order to convince the oil giant to open an ethane plant in the state Pennsylvania sweetens the pot with 1.65 billion pounds of sugar.
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It’s almost impossible for Pa. landowners to find out about fracking violations
Fracking companies might be violating drilling rules all over the place, but in Pennsylvania, landowners who leased their property to gas companies likely have no idea. CNN Money reports: That’s because the state agency charged with regulating the wells — the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) — does not have to notify landowners if a […]
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Critical List: Snow comes in April this year; Obama campaign seeks environmentalists
New York and Pennsylvania are getting hit with an April blizzard. The United States and Britain are going to collaborate on offshore wind development. Lithium air batteries could extend an electric vehicle’s battery life by a factor of 10 … if anyone could figure out how to make one.
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Depressing videos show the human toll of fracking
Because your Friday could use a little bleakness, here’s the trailer for Water Defense’s “Natural Gas Exxposed” video series, showing the toll that fracking takes on communities.
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Critical List: Pesticides are killing bees; North Sea gas leak only sort of dangerous
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