Hydraulic fracturing is the controversial practice of injecting water, sand, and chemicals under extreme pressure into wells, which fractures shale so that previously inaccessible natural gas can flow to the…
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Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a technique that takes chemically treated water and sand to open rock and release natural gas. The rock (shale) layers are more than a mile…
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An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new…
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Following the March 11 nuclear power plant disaster in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture it was revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency’s RadNet radiation detection network has several serious drawbacks, including a…
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A study conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies found that over the past 10 years the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost United States taxpayers a…