Huffington Post The event, which was held on the steps of City Hall, called for an end to the controversial gas drilling method as environmental groups increasingly wa...
Tribune-Review Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”involves pumping large volumes of water and sand into a well at high pressure to fracture Marcellus shale and other tight formations, allowing oil and gas to flow into the well. “OSHA has already released an alert ...
St Helens Today Fracking - the process of pumping water, chemicals and sand at high pressure into underground rock to release the gas - has split opinion due to its re...
YourErie The mock disaster drill was held to increase preparedness if something like this does happen. The mock disaster started with an alarm sounding after acid fumes filled the air causing a chemical reaction.... Students rushed to wash stations. When that ...
The Daily Camera Boulder City Council members Tuesday night unanimously approved a one-year fracking moratorium, blocking oil and gas drilling permits in the city and ...
Jerusalem Post US President Barack Obama has been reluctant to become involved in the Syrian conflict despite having called for Assad to resign and hinting at US militar...
Longmont Daily Times-Call The main thing we have to do initially, is listen to local concerns and then try to deal with them, sometimes using examples of how other Colorado communities have resolved similar issues, she said. ( LEWIS GEYER ). to prohibit "fracking" -- the ...
Columbus Dispatch The waste fluids, which officials call brine, are the byproduct of fracking, in which water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to shatter shale and free trapped oil and gas. An oil-based mud is used during drilling as a lubricant and to send ... and more »
UW Today But scientists didn't know how those early RNA–based proto-organisms incorporated environmental phosphorus, which in its current form, phosphate , is relatively insoluble and unreactive. Meteorites would have provided reactive phosphorus in the form of ... and more »
The News International WASHINGTON: The United States will send a Patriot missile battery and F-16 fighters to Jordan for a military drill and may keep the weapons there to counter the threat posed by Syria's civil war, officials said Monday. The Patriot missile launchers and ...