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RollingStone.com
March 13, 2018
Drawing on news investigations, government assessments and more than 1,200 peer-reviewed research articles, the study finds that fracking – shooting chemical-laden fluid into deep rock layers to release oil and gas – is poisoning the air, contaminating the water and imperiling the health of AmericansÃâà...
The Nation.
December 8, 2017
The oil fields of the Uintah Basin, located southeast of Vernal, Utah. (AP Photo / The Salt Lake ... On December 12, the Bureau of Land Management will auction off more than 66,000 acres in Utah for oil and gas drilling, including parcels very close to Dinosaur National Monument. Several potential drillingÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
October 3, 2017
The Bureau of Land Management's next auction of oil and gas leases in Utah is under fire from a multitude of environmental, public health and ... 40 other parcels nominated by the oil and gas industry for this year's lease auction out of its east-central Utah district, served by the Vernal and Price field offices.
Salt Lake Tribune
September 17, 2017
If maps Utah has submitted to the Interior Department are a guide, Bears Ears National Monument will be drastically cut in size. The state's vision, shared with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, is to shrink Bears Ears to one-tenth its current 1.35 million acres, scaling the southeastern Utah monument down toÃâà...
RollingStone.com
May 22, 2017
On October 24th, 2012, several agents from Pennsylvania General Energy, an oil-and-gas exploration company, met privately with local officials from the rural western Pennsylvania community of Grant Township. Fracking was booming in Pennsylvania, and PGE had been trucking tens of thousands ofÃâà...
Universe.byu.edu
March 11, 2016
More than 45,000 acres of public land in Utah were approved for fracking in 2015, causing several environmentally friendly focused companies to file formal ... The sale includes parcels of land from the Bureau of Land Management's Moab, Price, Vernal and Fillmore field offices in central and eastern UtahÃâà...
EcoWatch
June 23, 2015
In January, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on the fracking boomtown of Vernal, Utah. It described how a midwife named Donna Young was attacked and demonized for drawing attention to an increase in stillbirths in the town and its resistance to the idea that the industry that provides half its annualÃâà...
RollingStone.com
June 22, 2015
"Before they started spreading their cheer about me, I usually had 18 to 25 clients a year, and a spotless reputation in the state," says Young, the primary midwife to service Vernal, Utah, a boom-and-bust town of 10,000 people in the heart of the fracked-gas gold rush of the Uintah Basin. A hundred and fiftyÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
January 11, 2015
Using a portion of $100 million in mineral lease returns from energy companies, Vernal built a $15-million City Hall complex. ... In the end, county officials asked the state to investigate, and the Utah Department of Health is now studying infant mortality rates from 1991 to 2013 in Vernal and two other townsÃâà...
The Denver Post
October 27, 2014
VERNAL, Utah — The smartphone-sized grave marker is nearly hidden in the grass at Rock Point Cemetery. The name printed on ... In two phases of research, she has gathered samples in Colorado's Garfield County and is currently exposing pregnant mice to fracking fluids in her lab. She will be lookingÃâà...
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