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Trump indicates towns, states should be able to ban fracking

2016-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: Donald Trump seemed to support state and local bans on fracking in a Colorado interview Friday. In a departure from the usual position of Republicans and the wishes of the oil and natural gas industry, the GOP nominee for president said he thinks voters should be able to ban fracking at the state and local level, despite his personal support for the practice. Im in favor of fracking, but I think that voters should have a big say in it, Trump told Denver television station KUSA in an interview,...

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Alameda Becomes 5th County in California to Ban Fracking

2016-07-22 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Five counties in California have now banned fracking. Alameda County is the latest to join the list after county leaders voted unanimously in favor of banning fracking Tuesday evening. Alameda County is the first county in the San Francisco Bay area to ban hydraulic fracturing, CBS San Francisco reported. A coalition of environmental groups worked for more than two years to persuade county officials to ban the practice. "We've taken a step that will protect everyone in Alameda County, especially...

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Alameda county becomes first in Bay Area to ban fracking

2016-07-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

KQED: Alameda County is now the first Bay Area county to ban fracking, and supporters say it could have a domino effect across the region and the state. County supervisors unanimously approved the ban at their Tuesday meeting. Fracking is the process of extracting oil and gas from the earth using high-pressure water mixtures. Activists have raised concerns it could cause environmental damage such as ground water contamination. "I am deeply relieved that the Board of Supervisors passed the fracking...

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?A New Study Adds Fuel to Calls for a Fracking Ban

2016-07-21 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nation: About 386 million years ago, Pennsylvania received a great gift-or, depending on your point of view, a curse: the Marcellus Shale, a formation of black rock and limestone containing vast reserves of natural gas. The formation stretches from New York through the Appalachian Basin, but it's Pennsylvania that has played host to the most intensive plundering of those reserves since the mid-2000s, when energy companies began to use hydraulic fracturing to free up the gas trapped a mile below the surface...

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WhatsApp Faces Yet Another Brazil Ban

2016-07-20 02:03:18| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Judge Daniela Barbosa Assunço de Souza ordered the country's wireless carriers to block WhatsApp.

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