fracking

Today on Your Call: Why isn't fracking regulated in California?

Ali Budner — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:48:30 +0000

Today on Your Call: How is fracking affecting our food and water supply?

Ali Budner — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:12:09 +0000

East Bay Express: California gets fracked

Corey Hill and Corey Hill — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:54:53 +0000

Big Oil is rushing to extract fossil fuel from the state's underground shale formation. But will it contaminate — and waste — portions of our water supply?

Today on Your Call: What’s the future of natural gas fracking in California?

Matt Martin — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:56:37 +0000

On the today’s Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about hydraulic fracturing, which involves blasting huge amounts of chemicals, sand and water into the ground, which enables trapped oil and gas to escape. How much fracking is happening in California? How should it be tracked and regulated? Who is pushing for fracking in California? And how are communities organizing against it? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you

Guests:

Dan Jacobson, legislative director for Environment California

Connecting the Dots: Afternoon edition for Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Steven Short — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:03:38 +0000

The practice of fracking on oil wells near Taft, California has been approved by the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources. Fracking – the practice of injecting steam underground at high pressure to break up porous soil to release oil – had been banned within 150 feet of any wells known to be seeping oil...