Fracking Is Finally Getting Some Attention and Regulation

This is what caused our pollution of our water wells in Hoffman Estates.

Fracking Is Finally Getting Some Attention and Regulation

via TreeHugger on 2/22/10

From Jargon Watch: Fracking One would think that a process that pumped all kinds of chemicals into the ground would be subject to environmental scrutiny, but it isn't; in 2004 the Bush Administration "concluded that the process was safe and didn't warrant further study, because there was "no unequivocal evidence" of health risks, and the fluids were neither necessarily hazardous nor able to travel far underground." As John noted earlier in Read the full story on TreeHugger

Tainted sludge from New York is about to arrive in Texas

Why are we as Texans going to stand by and let New York send us hazardous Material.

Tainted sludge from New York is about to arrive in Texas

via chron.com Chronicle on 6/21/09

The Dallas-based company that operates the disposal site, Waste Control Specialists, stands to make tens of millions of dollars, according to a company spokesman who declined to give an exact dollar amount.

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