Environment – Page 146 – People's World

$Is Los Angeles poised to ban fracking?$

Is Los Angeles poised to ban fracking?

March 7, 2014 By Blake Skylar

It would halt all forms of "extreme well stimulation," including fracking, and require an independent multi-agency study be conducted exploring the economic, environmental, and health impacts of such drilling operations.

Hundreds arrested at White House in XL pipeline protest

March 5, 2014 By John Bachtell

In a dramatic sign of growing opposition to construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, 398 students were arrested March 2 after they chained themselves to the White House fence.

After gas explosion, Chevron offers victims free pizza

February 28, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The Chevron-owned fracking well shot flames into the air with a powerful boom, starting a fire that burned intensely for four days afterward before it was extinguished.

Report shows strong public support for Endangered Species Act

February 21, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The report was based on a poll which found that two out of three U.S. citizens want the Endangered Species Act either strengthened or simply left alone, but not circumvented or weakened.

U.S. drug war destroys rain forests

February 21, 2014 By Thomas Riggins

Rain forests around the world are rapidly disappearing due to illegal logging, the growth of palm oil plantations, the clearance for cattle ranching and other forms of commercial agriculture. Now scientists warn of another threat.