Does Frac Sand Mining Rush In Wisconsin Threaten Public Health?

Friday, December 7, 2012 Does Frac Sand Mining Rush In Wisconsin Threaten Public Health? While flying back home to Wisconsin earlier this fall, Victoria Trinko had no trouble spotting her family farm from the sky. She simply looked for the frac sand mines that have begun to punctuate the rural Midwestern landscape. Gore Slams Obama On Climate Change In Post-Sandy Speech Money In Focus On UN Climate Talks' Final Day Balmy November Virtually Assures 2012 To Be Hottest Year On Record Some Midwest Cities Set Snowless Records As Drought Continues Cleaner Air May Lengthen Life Spans In The U.S., Study Shows BLOG POSTS Neil Young: Why MPG Goals Are Flawed For survival of the planet and our way of life as human beings, we need to drastically reduce our carbon output. The approach being taken does not do that. Elliott Negin: Koch Brothers Fund Bogus Studies to Kill Renewable Energy You can say one thing about the Koch brothers: They don't let the facts get in their way. But the truth about renewable electricity standards is that they have not significantly increased rates. In some cases, rates have even dropped a bit. OnEarth: Keystone Conflict: Nebraska Firm Reviewing Tar Sands Project Has Ties to Pipeline Builder Conflict-of-interest concerns have plagued the Keystone project from the beginning. Now it turns out that HDR, the engineering and consulting firm hired by Nebraska to conduct an environmental impact assessment of the project, has a cozy relationship with the company it was supposed to evaluate. Jamie Henn: Hurricane Sandy's Sister, Typhoon Bopha The island of Mindanao in the Philippines couldn't be much farther away from New York City, but this week they've been inextricably linked by tragedy. Aaron Gray-Block: The Metaphors of Doha The world's media has been plumbing the depths of the thesaurus to report on the growing despondence in and around the UN climate talks in Doha, testing the limits of their vocabulary as the world's leaders test the planet's patience.

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