May 25, 2011
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Socioeconomic Value of the Delaware River Basin in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

Gerald J. Kauffman, University of Delaware Water Resources Agency

Executive Summary
What do the Guggenheim Museum, Boeing, Sunoco, Campbell’s Soup, DuPont, Wawa, Starbucks, Iron Hill Brewery, Philadelphia Eagles, Camelback Ski Area, Pt. Pleasant Canoe Livery, Salem Nuclear Power Plant, and …

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May 21, 2011
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Antero gets extension to review Battlement Mesa Health Impact Assessment

John Colson
Post Independent staff
Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Antero Resources will have an extra month to review, and comment upon, a recently issued draft Health Impact Assessment (HIA) about the Battlement Mesa community.

The Garfield …

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May 15, 2011
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Road Preservation Local Law: Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement

DELTA Engineers, Architects, & Land Surveyors

INTRODUCTION 
This Draft Scoping Document has been prepared pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQR”), Article 8 of the New York Environmental Conservation Law and its implementing regulations at 6 NYCRR Part …

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May 10, 2011
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Duke University: Scientific Proof Drilling/Fracking Contaminates Water

ProPublica, ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN

Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking

http://www.propublica.org/article/scientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking

For the first time, a peer-reviewed scientific study has linked gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can …

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May 9, 2011
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Reducing The Staggering Costs Of Environmental Disease In Children, Estimated At $76.6 Billion In 2008

Leonardo Trasande and Yinghua Liu, Health Affairs

A 2002 analysis documented $54.9 billion in annual costs of environmentally mediated diseases in US children. However, few important changes in federal policy have been implemented to prevent exposures to toxic chemicals. We …

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May 9, 2011
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Children's Vulnerability to Toxic Chemicals

Philip J. Landrigan and Lynn R. Goldman, Health Affairs Volume 30

A key policy breakthrough occurred nearly twenty years ago with the discovery that children are far more sensitive than adults to toxic chemicals in the environment. This finding led …

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May 6, 2011
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Report: hundreds of gas wells drilled near schools, hospitals

BY LAURA LEGERE, Scranton Times-Tribune

A state environmental group is calling on lawmakers to restrict natural gas drilling near places people live, learn and work after it released a study Thursday showing hundreds of wells have been planned or drilled …

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May 5, 2011
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Obama forms panel to improve fracking safety

WASHINGTON | (Reuters)

After a series of high-profile natural gas drilling spills, the Energy Department named a panel to recommend ways to improve the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that has expanded the country’s potential …

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May 4, 2011
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Pa. Well Blowout Tests Natural Gas Industry on Voluntary Fracking Disclosure

By MIKE SORAGHAN of New York Times Greenwire

Chesapeake Energy Corp., whose gas well blew out during hydraulic fracturing last month in northeastern Pennsylvania, hasn’t publicly disclosed chemicals that spilled, setting up the first test of an industry-backed voluntary disclosure …

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May 2, 2011
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Leading oil and gas reform organization expands presence in Gulf Region

EARTHWORKS

Durango, CO
“We are very pleased to announce Texas Sharon as our Gulf Region Organizer, said Gwen Lachelt, Director and Founder of EARTHWORKS’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project. Beginning today, Sharon Wilson, aka “Texas Sharon,” the prolific and much-respected …

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