Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeff Merkley are trying to get fracking, a dangerous oil & gas industry practice to extract natural gas from the earth, banned. They've introduced S.3247 - the Fracking Ban Act.
Fracking is something I've long sought to expose as dangerous for numerous reasons, including health problems, groundwater contamination, destabilization of bedrock leading to earthquakes and subsidence, and more. The bill itself lists many of the problems that the oil and gas industry has tried to deny and/or cover up, just like the Tobacco Institute lied to the public for decades about the dangers of smoking.
Please read the text of the bill here:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3247/text
Here's a letter of support including over 570 organizations that oppose Fracking:
https://foodandwaterwatch.org/sites/default/files/fracking_ban_act_sign-on_letter.pdf
Here's an article about their efforts to ban it: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/20/over-570-groups-endorse-sanders-and-ocasio-cortezs-fracking-ban-act-essential-and
You can sign the petition here: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/it-s-time-ban-fracking-now
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