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Danger in the Air
The boom in natural gas and oil exploration using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, commonly called fracking, has created a huge demand for the sand that drilling companies mix with water and toxic chemicals and inject underground to free gas and oil trapped in deep rock formations.
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Monster Wells
When it’s confronted with the growing concern about the vast volumes of water used in hydraulic fracturing of gas and oil wells, industry tries to dodge the question.
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Toxic Stew
Wastewater from hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in California is heavily contaminated with a toxic stew of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm...
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Recent EWG's Energy Research Archive Stories:
- Uranium Mining Claims Near Grand Canyon Could Surge if Supreme Court Reverses Ban
- Trump, Allies in Congress Promise Dirty Water for Mining States
- Toxic Chemicals May Contaminate Oil Field Wastewater Used to Grow Calif. Crops
- Better Biofuels Ahead
- California’s Fracking Fluids
- Toxic Stew
- Monster Wells
- Danger in the Air
- Ethanol's Broken Promise
- Court Rejects Challenge to Ban on Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon
- California Regulators
- Ethanol Report 2012
- Grand Canyon, Colorado River Protected from New Uranium Mining
- Grand Canyon and Colorado River Temporarily Protected from Uranium Mining
- Conflict at the Canyon
- Colorado River Agencies Urge Caution on Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon
- Victory Closer in Battle to Protect Grand Canyon
- Confusion at the Grand Canyon
- Bush Violates Law Protecting Grand Canyon From Uranium Mining
- Bush Ignores Law Protecting Grand Canyon as Uranium Mining Claims Soar