A recent proposal by the U.S. Department of Interior would require shaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock. gasNatural gas trapped in a shaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary
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It seems like the questions regarding the safety of gas drilling are always the same: Can it pollute the water? Does it make people sick? Is it dirtying the air? These are all reasonable questions that have been left unanswered by a lack of funding. Nationwide efforts to investigate the impacts of drilling have been
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There are many questions surrounding Marcellus ShaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock.ShaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock. is one of the most highly productive types of sedimentary
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The state House of Representatives approved a measure recently that could allow for drilling to extract oil, gas, coal, and limestone on the State System of High Education college campuses. The chamber voted 131-68. The legislation will allow the state Department of General Services to lease land at colleges within the State System of Higher
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