(EnviroNews World News) — Pawnee, Oklahoma — A major earthquake, caused by the underground disposal of fracking wastewater, rattled north-central Oklahoma on the morning of September 3, 2016. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the event occurred at 8:02 a.m. EST and measured 5.6 on the Richter scale.…
(EnviroNews Polls) — In a stunning turn of events, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said last friday night, that she wants to put a halt to fossil fuel extraction on federal lands. Clinton made the announcement at a campaign event when pressed by an activist/citizen-journalist concerned with climate…
(EnviroNews World News) — Albany, NY — Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) has made yet another bold move on behalf of the environment in his home state of New York — a proposed $123 million dollar increase to the state’s Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) for the 2016-17 fiscal year.…
(EnviroNews World News) — Since the implementation of the Dick Cheney Energy Bill in 2005, the U.S. backyard fracking boom has created some jobs, but it’s also left a trail of destruction in the wake — many of the damages are externalities, or rippling byproducts of the controversial…
(EnviroNews World News) — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — Historically speaking, Oklahoma used to be a place where almost no palpable earthquakes happened at all — but hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. “fracking” has changed all that now. Between the dates June 17 and June 24, 2015, Oklahoma was jolted by…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fox Creek, Alberta — More earthquakes have rattled Alberta, Canada, “from Fox Creek to Peace River [according to] experts and regulators,” The Tyee has reported, and those quakes were man-caused. What’s more, according to those same Alberta regulators, the seismic events were set off…
(EnviroNews World News) — Annapolis, Maryland — “Through October 2017, the Maryland Department of Environment will be prohibited from issuing permits to allow drillers to frack for natural gas within the state, part of which sits atop the Marcellus Shale.” That was how Grist reported it when Maryland…
(EnviroNews World News) — Denton, Texas — Three were arrested Monday, and another three today as protestors chained themselves to the entrance of fracking wells near Denton. The city is also known for being the birthplace of modern-day fracking — but earlier this year, citizens of that town…
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