"Air pollution has been linked to heart disease for years, prompting concern as well as some skepticism, as the physiological steps showing a cause-and-effect have gone less understood. But now, a multi-year study has for the first time documented that air pollution thickens blood and hardens arteries, a condition that causes cardiovascular problems like heart [...]
"AL GORE SNEEZES a hefty achoo. “Excuse me,” the former vice president says, dabbing a tissue at his nose before offering up an explanation. “Spring.” Outside Gore’s New York City office, spring has certainly sprung—early too. This March was the hottest one ever, beating the prior record set in March 2015. The same goes for [...]
"Zoom in on northwestern Colorado, near the town of Rifle, on a new website called disappearingwest.org and you’ll see a dramatic change on the landscape between 2001 to 2011. What looked like largely untouched terrain became dotted with hundreds of well pads with new dirt roads connecting them like arteries. Energy development was the biggest [...]
The new year brought with it several noteworthy developments in the fracking world. These include: a new lawsuit in connection with the Keystone Pipeline; legal action against the Department of Interior (“DOI”) Federal Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) in connection with its proposed opening of public lands for oil and gas exploration; new methane emission [...]
"BACKSTORY Last August, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first-ever rule targeting methane leaks from oil and gas infrastructure. Environmentalists lauded its potential to keep the greenhouse gas, which is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide, out of the atmosphere. Yet the rule had flaws: It did not apply to existing wells and facilities, [...]
WINDOW ROCK – On Monday, the Health, Education, and Human Services Committee approved Legislation No. 0121-16, which wouldestablish the Navajo Nation’s position to oppose hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking” within the Navajo Nation. According to the legislation, hydraulic fracturing is the injection of fluid into shale beds at high pressure in order to free [...]
"Oakland, CA-A new review released online today in the peer-reviewed journal 'Reviews on Environmental Health' shows that a clearer scientific understanding of the public health and environmental impacts of modern unconventional oil and natural gas development is emerging and that chemicals from unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations, including from fracking, pose serious health risks, [...]
By Marley Shebala Dine’ Bureau WINDOW ROCK — Proposed Navajo Nation Council Naa’bik’iyati’ Committee legislation to oppose fracking on the reservation brought the Navajo Nation Oil and Gas Company before the committee to talk about fracking Thursday. Navajo Oil and Gas Acting CEO Louis Denetsosie informed the Naa’bik’iyati’ Committee that the company acquired and paid [...]
"A newly published peer-reviewed study concludes that air pollution from fracking puts people's lungs, hearts, and immune systems at risk – and that the health risks are particularly pointed for young children and infants. The study — the first to specifically focus on how shale oil and gas drilling affects children ability to breathe — concludes [...]
"A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells. "A tiny community sitting on a 27-square-mile piece of Western Pennsylvania wanted to send a big message to the energy company planning to deposit toxic fracking wastewater under its neighborhoods. And its 700 residents wanted it [...]