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We Can End The Controversy Over Fracking Right Now
The list goes on — though as it turns out, not even 154 pages of "Mitigation Measures" gives the fu…
Rob Wile
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British PM David Cameron Goes All-In On Fracking
...fracking will create jobs in Britain. In fact, one recent study predicted that 74,000 posts coul…
Rob Wile
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The British Are Deeply Divided About Fracking The Shale Under Their Feet
A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "Safe Fracking Is A Bad Fairy Tale" as police escort a lorry…
Rob Wile
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Fracking Could Trigger Windfall For India, But What’s The Trade-off?
Fracking means ‘hydraulic fracturing’ or piercing into the layers of shale rocks lying deep inside …
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A fracking boom made the US the world's biggest oil producer. Now its end is pushing gas prices much higher.
US fracking was key to building energy independence through the 2010s. But the boom is over, and th…
Ben Winck
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The Father Of Fracking Has Died: Here's What The Process He Perfected Looks Like Up Close
There is some evidence it has contaminated water; that spent frack fluid injected into the ground c…
Rob Wile,Robert Libetti
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Those Nightmare Headlines About Fracking Health Effects Are Overblown
Key funding for the study was also provided by the Passport Foundation's Science Innovation Fund, d…
Lauren F Friedman
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Is Fracking Causing Infertility, Cancer And Birth Defects? Here's What We Really Know
Key funding for the study was also provided by the Passport Foundation's Science Innovation Fund, d…
Lauren F Friedman
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The UK lifted its ban on fracking to pursue energy independence as power bills soar, but experts say it's unlikely to help the energy crisis this winter
The UK temporarily banned fracking in 2019 due to concerns about earth tremors from this process of…
Huileng Tan
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We're finding out more and more about the worrisome link between fracking and health
The new study, in Nature, takes this one step further, by analyzing 240 of the known chemicals in f…
Jeremy Berke
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The Fracking Debate Is Over and Fracking Has Won
The Obama administration has recognized as much. Though the president has proclaimed an "all of the…
Rob Wile
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A Major Driller Gave Us An Inside Look At What Fracking Is All About
And it has developed an air of danger around it. There is evidence it has contaminated water; that …
Rob Wile,Robert Libetti
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It Could Be A Year Before New York Considers Lifting Its Fracking Ban
Gormley spoke with environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr., who told him Cuomo is going to hold o…
Rob Wile
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The 10 scariest chemicals used in hydraulic fracking
Numerous ProPublica investigations, however, found fracking to be the common thread in more than 1,…
Michael B Kelley,Jessica Orwig
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The UK government has given the green light to fracking in Lancashire
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid announced on Thursday that shale gas company Cuardrilla is allowe…
Adam Payne,Adam Payne
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A photographer spent months exploring a town on the frontlines of Britain's fracking war and returned with intimate photos of the people behind it
For close to a decade, shale gas developer Cuadrilla Resources has been trying to bring fracking to…
Harrison Jacobs
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The US Is Delaying Its 'Fracking' Rule AGAIN
The Obama administration first proposed a "fracking" rule last May, with a final rule expected by t…
AP
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The Founding Father Of Fracking Has Died
Mitchell had recently come out in favor of stricter regulation of fracking in recent years.He was 9…
Rob Wile
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Aubrey McClendon's fracking legacy - the good, the bad, the ugly
Today, the Society of Petroleum Engineers estimates that 2.5 million fractures have been pumped wor…
Tanya Lewis
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The fracking boom may have driven an increase in high school dropouts
"By the end of our sample period - when the price of oil remained (and hence labor demand should ha…