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Another Layer to Rendell’s Fracking Connections
by Justin Elliott ProPublica Recently, we wrote about former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s connections to the natural gas industry after he published a pro-fracking op-ed in The New York Daily News. Following our story, Rendell’s column — which called on New York officials to lift a ban on the drilling technique — was updated to disclose that he is a [...]
More Than a Matter of Opinion: Ed Rendell’s Plea for Fracking Fails to Disclose Industry Ties
by Justin Elliott ProPublica Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell took to the New York Daily News op-ed page Wednesday with a message to local officials: stop worrying and learn to love fracking. As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo agonizes over whether to allow the controversial natural gas drilling technique, Rendell invoked his own experience as a Democratic governor who presided [...]
Drilling Deeper: The Wealth of Business Connections for Obama’s Energy Pick
by Justin Elliott ProPublica When President Obama nominated Ernest Moniz to be energy secretary earlier this month, he hailed the nuclear physicist as a “brilliant scientist” who, among his many talents, had effectively brought together “prominent thinkers and energy companies” in the continuing effort to figure out a safe and economically sound energy future for the country. Indeed, [...]
Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the suits claim, the federal government facilitated the alleged swindle by failing in its legal obligation to ensure the [...]
Update: State Oil and Gas Regulators Still Spread Thin
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica The U.S. relies on state and federal regulators to make sure that oil and gas drilling is done safely, and that trillions of gallons of toxic waste injected into underground disposal wells do not contaminate water supplies. Today, ProPublica is updating its database on oversight of production and waste wells, adding records for 2010 and 2011 — the [...]
Export Push Reframes Debate Over Fracking
Pennsylvanians Angry About Plans to Ship Gas Overseas by Alexandra Duszak, iWatch News When Pennsylvanians agreed to a massive increase in natural gas drilling in the state, they were told that the economic benefit would outweigh any potential risk to the environment. The drilling employs a controversial technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, that backers [...]
Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water. In many cases, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted these so-called aquifer exemptions in Western [...]
CO2 Threatens the Oceans
by Robert Hunziker Ocean acidification is global warming’s “equally evil twin,” says Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist and head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ocean Acidification, National Geographic, April 2011. According to a Feature Story in Al-Jazeera: CO2 Dangerously Acidifying World’s Oceans, Nov. 28, 2012: “Oceans are sucking up increased carbon emissions, raising fears [...]
Thanks Alternet for Explaining My Post China Trip Illness
by Denis Campbell I sent much of August and part of September recovering from a nagging, undiagnosed illness I attributed to fatigue, travel and weather after an 11-day race across Western China. In last week’s series on Mitt’s China investments, I jokingly called the Xinjiang province’s attempt at wine making technically correct but lacking in [...]
Op-Ed: Explaining Romney/Ryan to My Mom
by Robert Neil Raper Here’s the thing. I love my Mom. She loves me. We both love this country, but one of us looks for news in every nook and cranny of the internet and cable tv and the other looks for news she already agrees with. Now I’m not saying my Mom’s closed minded… [...]
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