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Captina Creek Watershed Feature — Fracking Threatens Ohio’s Captina Creek Watershed
FracTracker's Great Lakes Program Coordinator Ted Auch explores…
December 20, 2019/by Ted Auch, PhD

Freiburg Recycling — The Circular Economy: What it means for Fracking and Plastic
November 24, 2019/by Erica Jackson

Urban Drilling in Los Angeles — Impact of a 2,500′ Oil and Gas Well Setback in California
Why does California need setbacks?
A new bill proposed by California…
July 2, 2019/by Kyle Ferrar, MPH

Plastic & Climate — The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
Plastic has been getting a lot of negative press lately.

It’s…
May 16, 2019/by Erica Jackson

You Are Here Map — Release: The 2019 You Are Here map launches, showing New York’s hurdles to climate leadership
For Immediate Release

Contact: Lee Ziesche, lee@saneenergyproject.org,…
April 24, 2019/by Guest Author

KS,OK,NE Injection Wells Feature Image — Wicked Witch of the Waste
The Great Plains has become the unconventional oil & gas…
March 7, 2019/by Ted Auch, PhD

Map of pipeline incidents across the US — Pipeline Incidents Continue to Impact Residents
Pipelines play a major role in the oil and gas extraction industry,…
December 7, 2018/by Matt Kelso, BA

Thomas Fire Photo by Marcus Yam, LA Times — California’s Oil Fields Add Fuel to the Fire
Never has the saying “adding fuel to the fire” been so literal.
California…
December 4, 2018/by Kyle Ferrar, MPH

24 hours of reality — 24 Hours of Reality: Protect Our Planet, Protect Ourselves
Perhaps you already know this, but climate change has a devastating…

Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship — 2018 Community Sentinel Award Reception
To honor environmental heroes working to address the harms of…

Frac sand mining from the sky in Wisconsin — Wisconsin’s Nonmetallic Mining Parcel Registration Program
How the frac sand industry is circumventing local control, plus…
November 15, 2018/by Ted Auch, PhD

Frac sand mine in Wisconsin — Living on the Front Lines with Silica Sand Mines
Guest blog by Christine Yellowthunder, an environmental activist,…
October 29, 2018/by Guest Author