Fracking: Minister wants NI ban on petroleum exploration The economy minister has said he wants to ban fracking and all other forms of petroleum exploration and production in Northern Ireland. Conor Murphy said he will soon ask the Executive to approve a ... 04/28/2024 - 6:28 pm | View Link
Fracking is destroying Ohio parks, people. We must wake up and kick oil gas industry out. Opinion: The fossil fuel industry and Ohio politicians in bed with it want to keep dark money, PAC money and its campaign donations flowing. 04/23/2024 - 10:39 pm | View Link
“Who’s gonna want to move here?” How fracking around Ohio’s Salt Fork State Park is changing area The presence of the oil and gas industry around Salt Fork and ongoing fracking have turned the Sabos into advocates trying to protect the land around Ohio’s largest state park. Well pads, injection ... 04/22/2024 - 3:17 am | View Link
A fracker’s toxic chemicals migrated a mile away, but state regulators kept the fracking operation going: Today in Ohio Editor Chris Quinn hosts our daily half-hour news podcast, with editorial board member Lisa Garvin, impact editor Leila Atassi and content director Laura Johnston. 04/22/2024 - 3:14 am | View Link
An Ohio fracking well leaked waste for years before the state finally stopped it Injection wells the state allowed to operate for more than six months after a state regulator deemed them an “imminent danger” to Athens County and its people now must stop pumping fracking waste deep ... 04/19/2024 - 10:30 pm | View Link
(CHARLESTON, W. Va.) — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case likely headed to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The Richmond-based 4th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid.
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“The coverage exclusions facially discriminate on the basis of sex and gender identity, and are not substantially related to an important government interest,” Judge Roger Gregory, first appointed by former President Bill Clinton and re-appointed by former President George W.
(SHERIDAN, Ind.) — U. S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia. But when $61 billion in additional support for the war effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted against it.
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Instead she has called for better oversight of U.
Colorado lawmakers are racing against the calendar — or, depending on one’s outlook — wielding time like a weapon against disfavored policies — to finish their business for the 2024 regular session of the General Assembly.
The legislature must adjourn by the end of the day on May 8, giving them 10 final days.
There are now just 10 days left in the 2024 Colorado legislative session. With a number of hefty bills still in the legislative pipeline, that means 10 days of long nights, voting marathons and hectic scrambling lie ahead of us.
Or, to paraphrase how one senator put it to The Denver Post last week: Go outside, touch grass, and kiss your families goodbye for a little while.
The bulk of Gov.