…in 2006, the country imported 3.7 billion barrels. What changed between then and now all comes down to one word: fracking, the popular name for hydraulic fracturing. Combined with horizontal…
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…extraction and fracking: __________ “Hydraulic Fracturing and the Risk of Silicosis” Rosenman, Kenneth D. Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, July 2014, Vol. 21, Issue 4. doi:10.1097/CPM.0000000000000046. Abstract: “Fracking,” the common name for…
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…counties with high fracking activity (more than 10 wells) had 21 percent higher rates of chlamydia and 19 percent higher rates of gonorrhea compared with counties with no fracking. There…
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…levels unseen since the 1970s. Much of the growth has been in natural gas obtained through hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” which involves injecting immense quantities of water and chemicals into…
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For almost a decade, residents of some Pennsylvania counties have complained that the natural gas prospectors nearby have contaminated their water. Locals say that after the fracking for gas began,…
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…activity on the controversial recent boom in hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking,” when fluids are injected at high pressure to fracture underground shale rock and create pathways for oil and…
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…the decline? What are you doing to help them?” Nobody asks those questions. JR: You’re also dealing with some fracking issues, because the Marcellus Shale — where there are a…
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…to a number of factors. The preceding years saw a boom in the use of hydraulic fracking to unlock oil supplies in shale-rock formations. This rapid technological advancement accompanied a…
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From the NSA’s surveillance program to FDA drug approval and from the use of police body cameras to fracking, many public policies that are frequently in the news are regulations,…
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…standpoint, however, the pattern may not prove to be perfectly linear or optimally fast, as new sources such as “shale oil” and shale gas produced by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,”…
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