Sentences with phrase «fracking polluting our water»

The Tuesday letter from Sabrina Bobrow claimed The Dispatch's Earth Day salute to natural gas was unwarranted because fracking pollutes water and...

«The EPA found disturbing evidence of fracking polluting our water despite not looking very hard.

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Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

Fracking pollutes our air, poisons water and makes people sick.

The famous - among - environmentalists jug of brown «Dimock - water» comes from a Pennsylvania town where a fracking operation polluted nearby wells.

Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York State.

«Finally, the Cuomo administration has embraced what we have known all along — that fracking pollutes the air, land and water, posing incalculable risks to families and business across New York, especially those near drilling sites, «said GPNY Co-Chair Gloria Mattera.

Clinton told Anderson Cooper that she supports fracking only when local governments approve, when companies reveal what chemicals they are using in the fracking fluids, and if they can prove they are not polluting the water or the land.

Is fracking polluting our drinking water?

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

Those critics say fracking uses a deadly mixture of chemicals that pollutes the air and water supplies, and makes people sick.

Look at the towns whose water sources are being polluted by nearby fracking.

«Fracking,» a violent process that dislodges gas deposits from shale rock formations, is known to contaminate drinking water, pollute the air, and cause earthquakes.

Fracking is known to use millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive wastewater, which has polluted drinking water.

But environmentalist special interest groups oppose the practice, because it would expand America's supply of hydrocarbon energy, and they have whipped up alarm among Manhattanites by making unfounded claims that fracking would pollute New York City's water supply.

The majority of the rules that regulate the use of fracking are derived from European directives and are intended to make sure that fracking and other activities do not contaminate water, pollute the air or use unsafe chemicals.