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Fracking health study results likely years off
Posted by Associated Press: Mary Esch on March 9th, 2013
Associated Press: A health study cited by leading environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as pivotal in helping persuade Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hold off on plans for limited gas drilling is likely years away from conclusions about whether the technology involved is safe, according to the project's leaders. With New York entering the fifth year of review of the process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, growing calls to wait for the Geisinger Health System study to be finished could push a final decision back...
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Snowquester and Climate Change: The Boring Truth
Posted by Huffington Post: Eli Lehrer on March 9th, 2013
Huffington Post: Like the budget sequester -- a miniscule, almost unnoticeable cut in a vastly overstretched federal budget -- the blizzard nicknamed "snowquester" that hit Washington this past week got far more hype than it deserved. (It fizzled out into a rain storm.)
This didn't stop climate change activists on the left and the right from using the blizzard that wasn't to make favorite points. Left-wingers said it proved "less snow, more blizzards" and used it as an opportunity for a patronizing lecture about...