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Greg Palast: Preventing Death By Pipeline (fracking)

Detail of Tower for drilling horizontally into...

Detail of Tower for drilling horizontally into the Marcellus Shale Formation for natural gas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

with Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com

Apr 17, 2012 by

With soaring gas prices, companies seek alternative ways to try to get energy sources in the US. On Tuesday the battle over energy continued on Capitol Hill. The Environmental Protection Agency met to finish up plans for regulations that should cut down on pollution from oil and gas drilling. Environmentalist claim hydraulic fracturing leads to toxic waste, but companies who use this practice say regulators are taking it too far. Greg Palast, investigative journalist, joins us with his take on fracking.

Greg Palast: EPA cracks down on fracking

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Greg Palast is the author of Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores.

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Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians, Part 1 by Walter Brasch

Fracking: Health, Environmental Impact Greater Than Claimed, Part 2 by Walter Brasch

Fracking: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania’s Heritage, Part 3 by Walter Brasch

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