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Don't Bargain Water for Power

December 17, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
Fracking operations near a home in Armstrong County, PA

By Guest Writer, Marion Stoddart In a December 2 commentary in the Boston Globe, columnist Tom Keane wrote that "The key to American energy independence is ‘drill, baby, drill’ -- or perhaps more correctly, 'frack, baby, frack.'" Fracking
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Don't Frack Denver's Water

December 13, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director What has separated the fracking wars in the Eastern U.S. from the Western U.S. is that New York City'sand Pittsburgh's watershed -- the place where these cities get their drinking water -- is proposed to be fracked. As you can expect, when millions of
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Ranking Retailers

December 12, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director This post originally appeared on the Safe Chemicals Healthy Families Blog It’s December 11 th - just a few weeks before the holidays and three weeks until New Years Eve. If you’re like me, you’re a little bleary-eyed running around to finish up end-of
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Green for the Holidays

December 4, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Lily Dieck, Michigan Intern The New Year is fast approaching. As you plan your resolutions for 2013, I encourage you to play your part in protecting our environment by making small changes to increase your home’s green factor. Don’t worry, it’s easy and won’t burn a hole in your pocket after all
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You've Got to Be Fracking Kidding Me!

December 3, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Joe Emmons, Texas Program Organizer Texas is the birthplace of Hydraulic Fracturing, or “Fracking” as it is more commonly known. Fracking mixes water, (secret) chemicals and sand. Frackers then pump the mixture into the earth at very high pressures to fracture the shale below the surface to
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