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Fukushima on the Hudson? The Growing Dangers of Indian Point

By Ellen Cantarow and Alison Rose Levy / TomDispatch Apr 1, 2016 The Indian Point plant in New York sits astride two seismic faults, and if a nuclear disaster of a Fukushima magnitude were to strike there, it would necessitate the evacuation of at least 5.6 million people. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power: The Past and the Future at Seneca Lake

By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch Jul 9, 2015 Against corporate efforts to turn the region around New York state's Seneca Lake into a gas storage and transportation hub for the entire northeastern U.S., a coalition of farmers and vintners, doctors and lawyers, clean energy companies and reluctant do-it-yourself activists is working to guide their home toward a fossil-fuel-free future. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

No Pipe Dream

By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch Jan 31, 2014 Spectra Energy, one of the largest natural gas infrastructure companies in North America, had proposed changes in a pipeline it owns, the Algonquin, which runs from Texas into my hometown, Boston. Suddenly, I’m in the crosshairs of the fracking industry, too. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania

By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch May 2, 2013 More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington state and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. As their cancers developed, the victims of atomic testing and nuclear weapons development got a name: downwinders. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement

By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch Jan 26, 2012 While most anti-fracking activists have been responding to harms already done, New York state’s resistance movement has been waging a battle to keep harm at bay. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )