(via Jennifer Reft)
The 150 million Americans routinely exposed to toxic air as a result of oil and gas drilling need better protection from their government, demanded a coalition of 64 environmental and community groups, who on Tuesday filed a petition (pdf) asking the Environmental Protection Agency to set limits on the air pollutants emitted from these wells (Lauren McCauley).
You can read more of the post at the following: http://www.juancole.com/2014/05/fracking-environmental-protection.html
btw, Germany generated 74% of its energy last year from renewable sources . . . and the US Senate recently blocked a tax cut that would have benefited the wind industry. North Carolina's legislature is attempting to make tracing fracking chemicals a felony. Yeah, America. Gotta love the corporatocracy.
The 150 million Americans routinely exposed to toxic air as a result of oil and gas drilling need better protection from their government, demanded a coalition of 64 environmental and community groups, who on Tuesday filed a petition (pdf) asking the Environmental Protection Agency to set limits on the air pollutants emitted from these wells (Lauren McCauley).
You can read more of the post at the following: http://www.juancole.com/2014/05/fracking-environmental-protection.html
btw, Germany generated 74% of its energy last year from renewable sources . . . and the US Senate recently blocked a tax cut that would have benefited the wind industry. North Carolina's legislature is attempting to make tracing fracking chemicals a felony. Yeah, America. Gotta love the corporatocracy.
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