environmental costs

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Environment
Economy

Report details fracking's economic toll on local communities

By Sue Sturgis

September 21, 2012 - From the health costs of air pollution, to the expense of preparing first responders for dealing with disasters, fracking for natural gas comes at a heavy price to local communities.

Human Rights
Environment

As the land disappears, an Indian tribe plans to abandon its ancestral Louisiana home

By Sue Sturgis

October 7, 2009 - For at least 170 years, Isle de Jean Charles -- a narrow ridge of land lying between Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Pointe-aux-Chene in southeastern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish -- has been home to members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha tribe, native people related to the Choctaw and part of a larger