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Here We Go Again: Fracking Industry Mangles More Facts 
Mark Brownstein, Environmental Defense Fund 
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Concealing the truth about fracking.....

Please join with others speaking out against censoring research showing the adverse effects of fracking by adding your name below:

From Environmental Action,

You won't believe what the EPA is covering up now. The agency has already covered up reports on fracking in Wyoming, Texas, and Pennsylvania to protect the polluters, not the planet. A new story in EnergyWire suggests why: they have been under political pressure to cover up fracking's danger to our planet, and to our health.*

The EPA needs our help to stand up to that pressure and do its job. That's why
I will be standing with members of all three affected communities next Wednesday at EPA Headquarters and the White House. Click here to add your name, and I will deliver it in person.




Environmental Action members demanded Gina McCarthy be confirmed to head the EPA because we believed she would take strong action to protect our environment, as she has in the past. Sign here to tell McCarthy to stand up to frackers and politicians alike by reinstating the research that proves fracking is bad for our water, land and air.

Shocking reports show that EPA research proved that fracking was contaminating people's drinking water, even rendering it flammable. But when the research looked bad for frackers, the EPA didn't pull the plug on drilling, it pulled the plug on the research**.

Thanks to courageous whistleblowers at EPA, we now know the agency has been sweeping its own research on fracking under the rug and putting the health of families and our environment at risk. We have already gone to the EPA office in Philly to thank the whistleblowers and speak out against censorship. Now we need to get the message to the head of the EPA. McCarthy wasn't head of the EPA when this happened, but McCarthy inherited the scandal and needs to address it.

Censorship of fracking studies has already happened in Parker County, Texas, Pavillion, Wyo., and now, in the town of Dimock in my home state of Pennsylvania. You might recognize that name, because it's near where Josh Fox of Gasland I and II lives. Well if the EPA wanted to cover up research proving that fracking contaminates drinking water, they picked the wrong town in the wrong state to do it. But we need your help to make sure this scandal gets attention from the most powerful people at EPA and the White House. Click here to tell the EPA to reopen their investigations into contamination of water by fracking.

Jesse Bacon,
Environmental Action

*Top Obama aide worked the Pavillion fracking investigation, Mike Soraghan, EnergyWire, September 11, 2013

**Fracking EPA Censorship: 3 times is a tradition, Jesse Bacon, Environmental Action Blog, August 7th 2013

Tell the EPA to stop blocking fracking investigations

They are not protecting us. Over the past year, the Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly shut down its own fracking-related water contamination investigations after being pressured by the oil and gas industry.

We knew that fracking has contaminated water from Pennsylvania to Wyoming, and thanks to EPA whistleblowers, now we know the EPA knew it too. So now they need to reopen their investigation into this dangerous and dirty drilling practice and stand with the people and the planet hurt by fracking.

Please fill out the form below and edit the message with your own story of what water you hold dear. We'll deliver your messages to the new EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and President Obama to make sure the EPA does its job to protect all of us.

Penquin Protesting Dirty Energy!

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Ka Nui! Enough!

Today in Wellington, New Zealand, a coalition of penguins marched on the NZ Petroleum Summit to protest against deep sea oil and gas exploration just off the capital's coast.

New Zealand's government plans to remove the right of the public to have a say on deep sea exploration -- but will they try to silence penguins too?

Click LIKE if agree with the penguin protesters - drilling fossil fuel is risky, expensive and should be abandoned.

Protesters waddle on petroleum industry's summit

By Matthew Backhouse

Protesters dressed as penguins in Wellington. Photo / APNZ

Protesters dressed as penguins have marched on the petroleum industry's summit in Wellington this morning to protest against deep sea oil drilling off the capital's coast.

The protest comes after United States oil giant subsidiary Anadarko NZ was last year granted two five-year permits to explore Pegasus Basin, off Cape Palliser.

Deep sea oil drilling has attracted controversy since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill off the coast of Louisiana, which was a costly environmental disaster.

More than 100 protesters, from as far as Auckland and Otago, gathered at Wellington Railway Station before marching to the NZ Petroleum Summit at Westpac Stadium shortly before 8am.

There was little disruption to peak-hour rail commuters as the protesters walked to the summit venue along the road, rather than through the station concourse.

Passing motorists beeped their horns in support of the group, some of whom were dressed as penguins and held aloft signs opposed to deep sea oil drilling and fracking.

More than 100 protesters marched to the NZ Petroleum Summit at Westpac Stadium. Photo / APNZ

Oil Free Wellington protest spokeswoman Fi Gibson said the march would send a strong message to oil and gas executives that deep sea drilling was too risky and unwanted.

"It's time as a collective community around the world that we need to move off the dirty fossil fuels and on to a cleaner, greener future."

The protesters intended to remain outside the summit until asked to leave by security staff.

"We are planning to sit down and voice our concerns really loudly so that the people inside the summit get the clear message that deep sea oil drilling, fracking and seabed mining are not acceptable."

Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges will address top oil company executives at the second annual summit, organised by the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association NZ, this morning.

- APNZ

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11126427