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Company’s billion-barrel oil boom stirs fracking fears along Colorado’s Front Range

By | 11.15.11 | 11:05 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Revelations Monday that Houston-based Anadarko may be sitting on up to a billion barrels of oil along Colorado’s Front Range immediately raised concerns about the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing in an area of increased residential growth in recent years.

Dow Chemical-Sponsored Walleye Festival to Donate Toxic Fish to Food Banks

By | 04.22.09 | 10:30 am

It’s Earth Day, and over at TWI’s sister site, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer reports that dioxin-contaminated fish caught from the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers during an annual Walleye Festival sponsored by Dow Chemical could find its way to the dinner tables of poor people.