Forging a ‘Different Path,’ Communities Take Fracking Fight to the Ballot
by Andrea Germanos Environmental groups and concerned community members have taken to the streets in their fight to stop fracking—an...
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- Feb 26, 2015
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Fracking Bans Pass in Denton, Texas, Two California Counties and One Ohio Town
With a record number of fracking issues on local ballots in California, Texas and Ohio, the outcome was decidedly mixed. Of the eight...
- Feb 26, 2015
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Disagreement On Legal Authority Complicates Local Fracking Bans
By Daniel Moore / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Last week in eastern Ohio, where natural gas production in the Utica Shale has been booming,...
- Feb 26, 2015
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Fracking Corporations Played the Democracy Game – Two Communities Set New Rules this Election
Around the country, communities fighting fracking took their cause to the ballot box in the 2014 cycle — or tried to. But even before...
- Feb 26, 2015
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Ohio Town, Seeking To Limit Drilling, Is Latest At Odds With State
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is siding with two oil and gas companies in a court case challenging a Cleveland suburb’s...
- Feb 26, 2015
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Broadview Heights Activists Sue Ohio Gov. John Kasich And State Over Gas, Oil wells
BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio – A local activist group that opposes oil and gas wells in residential neighborhoods has sued the state of Ohio...
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