I was shocked to learn that last week the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) gave Sen. Bernie Sanders a score of 6 percent in their 2016 National Environmental Scorecard. LCV claims that Sen. Sanders received such a low score because he missed votes while he was running his historic presidential campaign. But there may be […]
Gov. Jerry Brown’s oil regulators failed to meet their own deadline Wednesday for shutting down 1,650 oil industry injection wells that are violating water-protection laws by dumping toxic fluid into protected California aquifers. “Governor Brown’s administration has decided not to protect our water from illegal contamination by the oil industry,” said Hollin Kretzmann of the […]
By Alleen Brown In Donald Trump‘s first week as president, text describing two rules regulating the oil and gas industry was removed from an Interior Department website. The rules, limiting hydraulic fracturing and natural gas flaring on public lands, are in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. The changes were noted by the Environmental Data […]
Hear from the kids of Wilmington, California, who grow up in the shadow of oil wells. This video, second in the series of Stop Fooling California, tells the story of urban oil extraction in Los Angeles. “Our goal in producing this series is to reveal to the public and the LA City Council the impacts […]
Check out this first video in the in Stop Fooling California‘s #BadNeighbors series. The video tells the story of urban oil extraction in Los Angeles, featuring powerful voices and stories about life with an oil well as a neighbor and how communities of color are disproportionately shouldering this burden. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1446986521980947/ expand=1]
By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi On Jan. 25, President Donald Trump’s team listed the Atlantic Coast pipeline among the White House’s top priorities for infrastructure projects, an attempt to deliver on his campaign promise to invest in U.S infrastructure programs. Doomsday Clock Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight, Thanks to Trump https://t.co/yboK3r52ZT […]
Under President Donald Trump, a GOP-controlled legislature and a potentially conservative judicial branch, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the federal government will put environmental regulations and the fight against climate change on the wayside. Instead, it may be up to local and state governments to lead this good fight. Florida is a great example of […]
Virginia’s House of Delegates voted 59-37 on Monday in favor of a bill that would allow fracking companies to keep their chemical cocktails a secret. HB 1678 states that “chemical ingredient names, the chemical abstracts number for a chemical ingredient, or the amount or concentration of chemicals or ingredients used to stimulate a well” are […]
Guess what was found in Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) filing cabinets after gas operators drilled 10,027 fracking wells over the last 12 years? Only 9,442 citizen-reported fracking complaints. And 44 percent of those are drinking water-related. Pennsylvania’s DEP finally released the complaints to Public Herald, an investigative journalism nonprofit. There’s much to learn […]
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