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8-Year Fracking Moratorium Bill Introduced Maryland as Calif Demand Real Climate Action
2015-02-06 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On his way out of office last November, former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley opened the door to allowing fracking in that state, albeit under heavy regulation. That raised concerns that incoming pro-fracking Republican Governor Larry Hogan would dispense with many of the regulations, allowing extraction companies free reign. Yesterday a group of Maryland legislators introduced a bill to head off that possibility. Forty-eight legislators introduced the Protect Our Health and Communities Act...
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Fracking moratorium sought in Maryland
2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Baltimore Sun: Regulations that would impose a variety of best practices and safeguards on drilling for shale gas were proposed in the final days of the O'Malley administration, and are out for public comment. The rules were drawn up by the O'Malley administration as an advisory commission he appointed neared the end of a three-year study of fracking's risks. But critics, including some members of the advisory commission, contend the study gave short shrift to health concerns. cComments I wonder where Spam and...
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Fracking firm given second EA permit
2015-02-06 12:26:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Energy firm Cuadrilla is granted an environmental permit to frack at a second site in Lancashire.
Gov. Jerry Brown's fracking problem
2015-02-05 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: California Gov. Jerry Brown has done more to fight climate change than perhaps any other elected official in the United States. So what accounts for the environmentalists heckling him during speeches and planning to confront him Saturday at an Oakland March for Real Climate Leadership? One word: fracking. "I challenge anybody to find any other state" that's doing as much about climate change, Brown shot back to anti-fracking protesters during his speech at the California Democratic Party's convention...
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Its time for California to end risky fracking
2015-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: At the end of last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned hydraulic fracturing in New York, citing the threat it poses to public health. His states acting health commissioner put it this way: The potential risks are too great. In fact, they are not even fully known. Here in California, however, fracking is already happening and is poised to spread more widely. A report released last month from the California Council on Science and Technology showed that as many as 175 new fracking wells are drilled...
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