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May 12 2016

Obama Administration Finalizes Safeguards for Methane Pollution

By sjca Climate Change, Oil & Gas

Today the Environmental Protection Agency finalized standards for dangerous oil and gas methane pollution from new infrastructure. These are the first-ever national safeguards limiting methane waste and pollution and will go far to protect public health, address climate change, and…

May 04 2016

Taking Action to Regulate Dangerous Drilling and Fracking Waste

By sjca Oil & Gas, Rivers

We’re all pretty aware these days that fracking requires ludicrous amounts of water mixed with nasty chemicals. And that the huge boom in drilling over the last decade was largely fueled by new fracking technologies. There has been a lot…

May 04 2016

Citizens Groups Challenge Fracking in Santa Fe National Forest

By sjca Oil & Gas

The Bureau of Land Management in Farmington, NM hasn't updated it's 2003 Resource Management Plan (RMP) since horizontal fracking technologies became viable in the Four Corners. Currently, they are revising the RMP to reflect these new technologies. Yet, at the…

Apr 21 2016

Power play over mine saddles Navajos with toxic asset

By sjca Climate Change, Coal, Durango Herald Column

Imagine an unlikely scenario with me. Donald Trump, the wildly successful, great, terrific business icon turned even terrific-er presidential candidate, finds himself unsure how to negotiate a business transaction. Who might he call for advice? After years of watching a…

Obama Administration Finalizes Safeguards for Methane Pollution

Taking Action to Regulate Dangerous Drilling and Fracking Waste

Citizens Groups Challenge Fracking in Santa Fe National Forest

Power play over mine saddles Navajos with toxic asset

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