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Media Omissions on EPA Fracking Study; Activists Block Rhenish Open-Pit Lignite Coal Mine
Here’s What Most Media Outlets Left Out of Their Reporting on EPA Fracking Study. The EPA study identified several “limiting factors,” including insufficient data, the lack of long-term studies and inaccessible information, which it said “preclude a determination of the frequency of [drinking water] impacts with any certainty.”
Activists Occupy Giant Coal Excavator To Block Mine. In Rhenish open-pit mining, everything in the way will be destroyed; homes expropriated and people evicted. Where villages, fields, meadows and woods once stood, inconceivably huge holes now appear in the landscape, an industrial wasteland to the horizon. Of all of the energy sources, lignite is ridiculously inefficient, releasing huge loads of CO2 and particulate emissions.
