Why the Battle Over Canada's Tar Sands Is an American Issue
By Asher Miller / Post Carbon Institute
For starters, the energy and environmental impacts of tar sands production are not limited to within the borders of Canada. But the trouble doesn't end there.
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Gasland Director Josh Fox: Obama's Support for Natural Gas Drilling 'A Painful Moment' for Communities Exposed to Fracking
By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez
Democracy Now!
Was Lou Gehrig's ALS Caused by Drinking Water?
By Wendee Holtcamp
Miller-McCune Magazine
State Of The Union: President Obama Blames Congress for Inaction on Climate Change, While Calling for Increase in Fossil Fuel Production
By Brad Johnson
ThinkProgress
Fracking's "Little Revolution": How a People-Powered Movement Fights Big Business for Clean Water
By Ellen Cantarow
TomDispatch.com


Sugar High: The Dark History and Nasty Methods Used to Feed Our Sweet Tooth
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
3 Ways Laws Are Stacked to Favor Fracking Companies -- And How We Can Change That
By Peter Montague / AlterNet
Despite Obama's Decision on Keystone Pipeline, the Fight Against Tar Sands Is Far From Over
By Bill Walker / Climate Central
Oil Lobby Threatens Obama Over Keystone Pipeline: Here's Just How Much Financial Firepower the Industry Has in Washington
By Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian
One More Day to Act: Gas Drilling May Begin in New York Soon
By Sabrina Artel / AlterNet
Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes
By Scott Thill / AlterNet
Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers'
By Karen McVeigh / The Guardian

How Activists Can 'Occupy' Their Cities with New Legal Structures That Empower Communities Over Corporations
By Jeff Reifman, Thomas Linzey / YES! Magazine
How Canada's Become a Home for Some of the Biggest Fracking Projects
By Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica
L.A.'s Dirty Coal Addiction Is Killing Arizona
By Joshua Frank / AlterNet
The Fight Over Keystone XL Now Has A 60-Day Deadline -- Is This Good or Bad?
By Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress
Goodbye 'Shop Til You Drop' Mentality: Renegade Band of Economists Call for 'Degrowth' Economy
By Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
The Fracking Industry Has Bought Off Congress: Here Are the Worst Offenders
By Scott Thill / AlterNet
The Mysterious Death of Dunkard Creek: Is Fracking to Blame for One of the Worst Ecological Disasters in the East?
By Adam Federman / Earth Island Journal
Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]
By Nina Berman / AlterNet

Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time
By Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica
The Shocking Republican Attack on the Environment and Our Drinking Water
By Sharon Guynup / Environment News Service
Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is up to Prepare for Melting Glaciers
By Douglas Fischer / Daily Climate
The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Civilization: Coming to the American West?
By William deBuys / TomDispatch.com
Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable Than Even the Most Environmentally Sensitive Traditional Farms?
By Brendan Smith / AlterNet
Josh Fox: Are We About to Witness the Liquidation Sale of New York and its Drinking Water?
By Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

UK Secretly Helping Canada Push its Tar Sands Project and Escape Dirty Fuel Designation in Europe
By Damian Carrington / The Guardian
Globalization Leads to Struggle for Food that Imperils Filipino Poor
By Erika Eichelberger / AlterNet
Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia's Forests?
By Kylie Benton-Connell / AlterNet
The New Wild West: Will Citizens and the Environment Suffer as an Oil Rush Engulfs West Africa?
By Meena Bhandari / IPS News
The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics
By Tara Lohan / AlterNet
Is it Coca-Cola's Grand Canyon or Ours? The Fight Over Bottled Water Hits National Parks
By Rich Bindell / Food & Water Watch

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