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Asbestos: Still legal and in use — Reuters Investigates by ReutersTV The word “asbestos” is enough to clear a room, if not a building. Reuters’ correspondent Ben Berkowitz explores the hazards of asbestos with Mark Van Baalen, a [...]
40 Acres and a Rule: Draft Federal Fracking Regs Cover Only A Sliver of Land by Lena Groeger Last week’s media coverage of the Obama administration’s newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on how drilling companies would have to [...]
New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years by Abrahm Lustgarten for ProPublica A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the [...]
Pentagon failed to protect whistleblowers Investigators routinely disregarded rules while rejecting complaints of reprisals for reporting waste, fraud and abuse by R. Jeffrey Smith & Aaron Mehta for iWatch News The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers [...]
USGS: Recent Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade” Report Implicates Oil and Natural Gas Drilling By Dusty Horwitt and Alex Formuzis for EWG Washington, D.C. – A U.S. Geological Survey research team has linked oil and natural gas drilling operations [...]
by Environmental Working Group Water that runs off fields treated with chemical fertilizers and manure is loaded with nitrogen and phosphorus, two potent pollutants that inevitably end up in rivers and lakes and set off a cascade of [...]
ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules by Cora Currier One of the key controversies about fracking is the chemical makeup of the fluid that is pumped deep into the ground to break apart rock and release natural gas. Some [...]
by Climate Desk You’ve heard about the Foxconn factory in China where your iPad is assembled. But have you ever considered the energy required to store your emails, photos and videos in the cloud? As worldwide demand for [...]
Behind the story: Why I care about a bony fish with oddly shaped fins Looting the Seas III project manager, Mort Rosenblum, talks about his experience reporting the story for ICIJ and BBC World News with a multi-country [...]
The EPA’s First Fracking Rules — Limited and Delayed by for Lena Groeger ProPublica The Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national air pollution regulations for fracking on Wednesday. First proposed in July 2011, the final rules have been welcomed by environmental groups [...]