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Man-Made Earthquakes: Another Negative Legacy of Fracking

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer exploration, extract, extraction, fracking, fracturing, gas, Geological Survey, hydraulic, man-made earthquakes, Ohio, oil, Oklahoma, U.S., US, USGS, well

Man-made earthquakes are now common across Oklahoma and other parts of the Midwest and South thanks to the surge in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) activity…

Soap Box

We Need to Reevaluate Our Relationship With Oil

Kate Harveston accident, alternative, barrel, demand, energy, extraction, geotherman, leak, oil, petrol, petroleum, pipeline, price, renewables, solar, spill, supply, wind, workers

Given rising prices, dwindling supply and environmental hazards, the United States desperately needs to reevaluate its relationship with oil…

Under Water

Interview: Oceana’s Jackie Savitz

Ethan Goffman development, drilling, extraction, fines, Jackie Savitz, Oceana, off-shore, offshore, oil, penalties, wells

EarthTalk’s Ethan Goffman interviews Jackie Savitz, Oceana’s Vice President for U.S. Oceans, on the dangers of drilling for oil off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic . . . If you’d rather read it than watch it, the full transcript of our discussion with Jackie is below… EarthTalk: The Obama administration has recently put a […]