New Resources

Major Push to Clean Up Shale Gas Fracking as 55 Top Investors With $1 Trillion in Assets Weigh In (Hydrofracking)

This press release from Investor Environmental Health Network, Boston Common Asset Management, and Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility signals that the IEHN/ICCR "Extracting the Facts" guidelines for corporate reporting of shale gas/oil risks and risk management have now secured support from investors on three continents (Australia, Europe, and North America) having $1 trillion in assets under management.

Politics: Report - Communities Need to Carefully Consider Oil and Gas Development (Hydrofracking)

This report outlines the economic upside of the increasing shale oil and gas development throughout the country, including increased employment, capital expenditures, and tax revenues to the states and local communities. But the report warns that fracturing companies may provide inflated estimates of the economic benefits of energy development while not mentioning the negative local impacts that some regions are experiencing.

Toxic Chemicals in the Workplace: Putting Millions of Workers at Risk

Over 3% of the workforce is employed in jobs, such as janitors, landscaping workers, pesticide handlers and other maintenance workers, where they are exposed to toxic chemicals in their workplace on a daily basis. SAFER States' blog post discusses the on-the-job dangers posed by toxic chemicals, and what can be done about it.