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By Robert Oswald and Michelle Bamberger Photo credit: Pete Souza In August of 2013, President Barack Obama released his “Climate Action Plan” that was to form a roadmap for transforming our energy supply and usage. It had many important suggestions for combating climate change, but was presented in very general terms. The release of the…
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By Robert Oswald and Michelle Bamberger Photo credit: Joshua Doubek The EPA recently released a review draft of its long awaited study of hydraulic fracturing in the United States entitled “Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources.” This report, which totaled almost one thousand pages, was…
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On Dec 17th, Governor Cuomo announced that he would ban fracking in New York State because of health concerns. It’s a huge victory for activists, say Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, authors of “The Real Cost of Fracking,” but there’s more work to be done to make New York truly safe.
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By Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald New York Governor Andrew Cuomo meets with supporters at the Hotel Trade Council during a reelection campaign event on September 8, 2014 in New York City. The September 9th gubernatorial primary in New York State was, in essence, a referendum on the record of Governor Andrew Cuomo, a conservative Democrat.…
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Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald chronicle the dangers and alarming consequences from contamination at fracking sites in their meticulously researched new book, ‘The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food.’
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The New York State Court of Appeals ruled recently that towns can use zoning laws to prohibit fracking. Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, authors of the forthcoming book ‘The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food,’ investigate the potential impact of that decision.
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