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Environmental Group Calls for Fracking Ban in New Report  Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 08:51 AM PDT Environment America, a group of state-based environmental advocacy organizations, released a report Thursday called "Fracking by the Numbers," which quantifies damage done by fracking across the United States.According to the report, fracking operations in the U.S. generated 280 billion gallons of toxic waste water in 2012. The report also found that, since 2005, fracking has used 250 billion gallons of fresh water, degraded 360,000 acres, and released 100 million metric tons of global warming pollutants into the atmosphere. ... Full Story	Top
Oceans face 'deadly trio' of threats, study says  Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 01:55 AM PDT By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - The world's oceans are under greater threat than previously believed from a "deadly trio" of global warming, declining oxygen levels and acidification, an international study said on Thursday. The oceans have continued to warm, pushing many commercial fish stocks towards the poles and raising the risk of extinction for some marine species, despite a slower pace of temperature rises in the atmosphere this century, it said. ... Full Story	Top

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