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A glimmer of light: Fracking bans pass across the country
A glimmer of light: Fracking bans pass across the country

The media is all abuzz about the big conservative wins throughout the country last night. Yet despite the flurry of victories for anti-environmental and pro-fossil fuel candidates, another story is also emerging. Small towns are fighting back against the fossil fuel industry to protect their health and the environment they live in.

Last night towns and counties throughout the country voted to ban fracking in their localities. These victories occurred in the face of strong…

Making sense of DOEs insensible proposals to change LNG export decision-making procedures
Making sense of DOEs insensible proposals to change LNG export decision-making procedures

July 21, 2014, marked the close of the Department of Energy’s comment period for its proposed changes to liquefied natural gas export decision-making procedures. Along with the Sierra Club and the Americans Against Fracking coalition, Friends of the Earth submitted public comments requesting that DOE correct flaws in the environmental and economic analyses that it relies on when determining whether proposed liquefied natural gas export projects are in the public interest.

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No fracking way: New brief from Friends of the Earth Europe
No fracking way: New brief from Friends of the Earth Europe

In a new issue brief, Friends of the Earth Europe and other allies detail the potential threats that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a massive trade deal currently being negotiated between the EU and the United States, brings to the efforts to control fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing).

The scale of TTIP is huge, and threatens to roll back safety, health and environmental safeguards on food, chemicals and fossil fuels. The proposed…

No fracking way: Keeping hydraulic fracturing out of California
No fracking way: Keeping hydraulic fracturing out of California

Thanks to new high-tech advances, California is on the verge of another oil boom: a fracking boom. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as it is commonly known, involves drilling horizontal wells and pumping toxic fluids into them at high pressure, which cracks the rocks to allow the trapped shale oil to escape.

The problems with fracking are enormous and well documented in places like Pennsylvania and North Dakota, where an oil and natural gas boom…