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"Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Fracking 'Gag Rule'" [1]

"A new law in Pennsylvania has doctors nervous."

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Source: NPR [8], 05/18/2012

"Town's Effort To Link Fracking And Illness Falls Short" [9]

"Quite a few of the 225 people who live in Dish, Texas, think the nation's natural gas boom is making them sick. They blame the chemicals used in gas production for health problems ranging from nosebleeds to cancer.
And the mayor of Dish, Bill Sciscoe, has a message for people who live in places where gas drilling is about to start: 'Run. Run as fast as you can. Grab up your family and your belongings, and get out.'"

Energy & Fuel [10]
Pollution [5]
Science [11]
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Source: NPR [13], 05/17/2012

"Ohio Senate Approves New Fracking Rules" [14]

"COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio senators approved new regulations for horizontal shale drilling known as fracking on Tuesday in a bipartisan vote punctuated by a spoken rendition of 'The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song."

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Public [6]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [16], 05/17/2012

How Muzzling Scientists Helps the Chemical Industry [17]

A Chicago Tribune investigative series on flame retardant chemicals helps illustrate how federal agency control of what scientists say to reporters can help the chemical and tobacco industries. By reporter Michael Hawthorne.

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Fracking Disclosure: Is the Data Half-Disclosed or Half-Hidden? [22]

After backroom lobbying by gas and oil industry groups, the Obama White House watered down the promised fracking-fluid disclosure requirement promised earlier this year — imposing it only after completion of the fracking operation, when the information may have little effect (such as public pressure on BLM to deny a drilling permit).

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"'Close Encounters' With Gas Well Pollution" [24]

"Living in the middle of a natural gas boom can be pretty unsettling. The area around the town of Silt, Colo., used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet of birds was the most you would hear. Now it's hard to make out the birds because of the rumbling of natural gas drilling rigs." ...

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National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NPR [25], 05/16/2012

"Potomac River Threatened by Pollution, Congress, New Report Says" [26]

"A new report named the Potomac the nation’s most endangered river, saying it is threatened by nutrient and sediment pollution that lowers the quality of drinking water and kills marine life and will only get worse if Congress rolls back regulations in the Clean Water Act."

05/15/2012
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"Residents: Pa. Ignoring Their Drilling-Related Health Complaints" [27]

"PITTSBURGH -- The Pennsylvania Department of Health says it investigates every claim by residents that gas drilling has caused health problems, but several people say the agency's actions don't match its words."

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Source: AP [28], 05/15/2012

SEJ Member Spotlight: William Souder [29]

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Freelance writer William Souder has reported on a wide variety of environmental subjects and is the author of three books, including the forthcoming On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, marking the 50th anniversary of Carson's Silent Spring — and, by extension, a half century of environmentalism.

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Air Rule Killed as Obama Touts Effort To Cull 'Unnecessary Burdens' [31]

"In what the White House calls a milestone in its effort to cut red tape, the Obama administration today said it was overhauling or eliminating five regulations -- including a Clinton-era air-pollution rule -- in an effort to save $6 billion in unnecessary costs over the next five years."

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Source: Greenwire [33], 05/11/2012

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