The US's 'dash to frack' for oil or gas, which has transformed the country's energy market, is seriously depleting and contaminating aquifers and surface water supplies, writes Valerie Brown. The choice facing America is plain - energy, or water?
Fracking boom depletes, pollutes US water supplies Valerie Brown | 20th June 2013 News Water USA Fracking Pollution Waste fracking_site_in_warren_center_pa-cut.jpg The US's 'dash to frack' for oil or …
America's expanding oil production threatens the pristine Pacific Northwest region of the country with a rash of new oil terminals along the coast, writes Valerie Brown, and hugely expanded traffic of freight trains loaded with hundreds of cars of crude oil heading for California refineries.
US oil boom threatens pristine North-West with crude transport corridors Valerie Brown Climate News Network | 11th November 2014 News Oil Fossil Fuels Transport USA Canada Climate Change …
A six-month investigation finds that the revolving door between government and the chemical industry has led the EPA to rely on easily manipulated toxicology research carried out entirely on computers - and this 'in silico' science often trumps both biology and epidemiology when it comes to regulatory action, or lack of it. The result? Toxic substances remain in everyday products.
… toxicant linked to nasal cancer and leukemia, as well as to allergic reactions and … by CIIT/Hamner - questioning its link to leukemia. If that link is considered weak or … is well aware that "more people have leukemia ... than have nasal tumors" , says …