Mark Ruffalo is one of hydraulic fracturing’s most high-profile opponents. He also plays the Incredible Hulk in the new Avengers film. You wouldn’t think these two worlds would collide, but Ruffalo made the connection in a recent interview flagged by Slate’s Dave Weigel. New York-based City and State asked Ruffalo — they really did — [...]
Mother Jones magazine has put together a handy timeline from the discovery of natural gas deposits in upstate New York in 1825, to last month, when actor and New York resident Mark Ruffalo launched his official campaign against fracking. There’s a big gap though, nothing seems to have happened in the natural gas world for [...]
From Time’s year-end issue, which tagged actor Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Ingraffea and Robert Howarth of Cornell as “people who mattered” for opposing hydraulic fracturing: The biggest environmental issue of 2011 — at least in the U.S. — wasn’t global warming. It was hydraulic fracturing, and these three men helped represent the determined opposition to [...]
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