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Opinion: Fix trade secret law to protect precious water from fracking
Community members near Braddock, Pennsylvania, gathered in March to push back against plans to frack at Edgar Thomson mill. (Credit: Mark Dixon)

Opinion: Fix trade secret law to protect precious water from fracking

If the public is going to have a robust debate about the merits of fracking, both sides need to know what's being pumped into the ground.

There is no human behavior more dangerous than the poisoning of groundwater we depend on—which is why trade secret law must be amended to protect these precious resources from contamination by undisclosed chemicals used in oil and gas extraction.

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Groups sue to reverse the feds’ approval of right of way needed for eastern Utah oil shale mining

Groups sue to reverse the feds’ approval of right of way needed for eastern Utah oil shale mining

A proposed oil shale mine and ore-processing project in the Uinta Basin is under legal fire from several environmental groups that are seeking to invalidate a recent Bureau of Land Management decision to let the developer cut a 14-mile utility corridor across public land.
Major Utah oil-shale project clears ‘tremendous milestone,’ but at what cost to the environment?

Major Utah oil-shale project clears ‘tremendous milestone,’ but at what cost to the environment?

North America's first commercial oil-shale operation cleared perhaps its biggest hurdle when the federal government authorized a 14-mile corridor across public land to service a proposed strip mine that could produce 50,000 barrels of crude a day — but also deplete the Green River.

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