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Gary Corseri: Mealy-mouthed assassins state halt-truths/non-truths, swearing they are all-true.

Fracking: Health, Environmental Impact Greater Than Claimed

Walter Brasch: What is the connection between fracking, the environment and health? Research “strongly implicates exposure to gas drilling operations in serious health effects on humans, companion animals, livestock, horses, and wildlife.”

Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians

By Walter M. Brasch

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Walter Brasch: A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing.

How Your Home Fills with Carbon

By Sharon Kyle

Sharon Kyle: Reducing carbon emissions will not stabilize the climate, going carbon negative for a long time might. As long as we get power from fossil fuel-fired power plants we cannot even hope to have a stable climate.

Design to Fail: Of Supertrains and Sprawl

By Adam Eran

Adam Eran: One recent such sprawl-enabling designed-to-fail project is California’s proposed high speed “supertrain.” This would take years and cost billions to build.