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Frackers are guzzling water in drought-plagued areas
Most of the fracking underway in the U.S. is occurring in regions that are experiencing water stress.
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A Big Oil foe runs for Congress — as a Republican
Monte Shaw, head of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, hates Big Oil, which is refreshing -- but he loves the ethanol industry, which is not so refreshing.
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Pennsylvania to start fracking sensitive state forestland
Nearly half of Pennsylvania's shale-rich state forests have been leased to frackers. The state's Republican governor thinks that's not enough.
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Duke Energy’s coal-ash spill has utterly ruined a river
The Dan River in North Carolina has been turned into gray sludge -- and Duke Energy still hasn't figured out how to stop the leak.
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Hundreds of scientists urge EPA to reject Pebble Mine
A proposed gold and copper mine near Alaska’s fish-rich Bristol Bay would be a terrible idea, 360 scientists say in a letter to the EPA.
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Food hubs: Sustainable agriculture’s missing link
Before food hubs were trendy, Veritable Vegetable was figuring out how to make the concept work.
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Will Obama do the right thing on ozone and smog this time around?
Obama has been as bad as Bush when it comes to curbing ground-level ozone pollution. But soon he'll have another chance to get ozone rules right.
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Can we save Chesapeake Bay from chicken crap?
A bill in Maryland would make poultry producers pay five cents a bird to help protect the bay from chicken-waste runoff.
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Is fracking pollution deforming babies?
Infants born near fracking sites in Colorado were found to suffer from elevated rates of congenital heart defects and neural tube defects.
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Step right up, Big Coal, for America’s Big Coal Giveaway
It's bad enough that the U.S. leases out so many coal tracts. Even worse is that it does so at way-below-market prices, as a new report confirms.
