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Email this pageFracking (aka, hydraulic fracturing or industrial gas drilling) is a dangerous way of getting oil and gas and a shortsighted energy strategy. It's poisoning our air and water and on its way to jeopardizing the health of millions more Americans.
We can find a better way—one that protects our health and gives us clean, safe energy sources that never run out.
Video Supplements:
A Citizen's Tip Guide: Find your way to protect things from fracking.
Meet the Oil & Gas Twins: About the animation's dastardly villains.
Interactive Map: Fracking and Fraccidents
"Fraccidents"—troubling reports of poisoned drinking water, polluted air, mysterious animal deaths, industrial disasters and explosions—have occurred across the country, part of the country's fracking-fueled gas drilling boom. Explore the fraccidents, frack targets and how you can get involved in your local fight, from California to New York, Pennsylvania to Colorado.
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Take Action
Our country is in the midst of an unprecedented gas drilling boom—brought on by a controversial technology called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking."
Here's what you can do to help protect our air and water:
Help Save Pennsylvania's State Forests:
If you've ever visited Pennsylvania's State Forests or, more importantly, if you ever want to, now is the time to speak up. The state's gas drilling rush is closing in on these special places.
Secret Gas Drilling Chemicals Don't Belong In Our Drinking Water:
[ U.S. Residents Only ] Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the FRAC and BREATHE Acts, which would close industry loopholes in the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Air Act.
Thank Co-Sponsors Of The FRAC And BREATHE Acts:
[ Selected States, Congressional Districts Only ]
Are your elected officials already co-sponsoring the FRAC and BREATHE Acts? (View co-sponsors.) Send them messages of thanks for being champions for public health and the environment.
Put The Brakes On Dirty Gas Drilling:
[ NY Residents Only ] Ask Governor Cuomo to give the Department of Environmental Conservation the time, the staff and the resources to fully and properly evaluate fracking's risks.
Video: Finding Their Way
Jen Slotterback was hiking in her favorite park when she found signs of surveying for gas drilling, or fracking. Although she and her husband had never been actively involved in the issue of gas drilling, they immediately began a campaign to save the park. The story of the Slotterbacks' journey is the subject of this film.
Related:
• Explore The Citizen's Tip Guide to learn how you can protect the areas you love from the dangers of fracking.
• Multimedia Producer Chris Jordan writes about the making of Finding Their Way in "Fighting Fracking: A Love Story".
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