2013 Saw Environmental Protests, Regulatory Conflicts of Interest and Lingering Mysteries, It was a year when people were fed up with pipelines from Canada, fracking, coal trains and other environmental messes

2013 Saw Environmental Protests, Regulatory Conflicts of Interest and Lingering Mysteries, It was a year when people were fed up with pipelines from Canada, fracking, coal trains and other environmental messes by Marla Cone and Environmental Health News, January 2, 2014, Scientific American
In 2013, we posted nearly 58,000 news articles, opinion pieces and editorials. A whopping 9 percent of those articles – more than 5,000 – were about fracking, the controversial procedure to extract natural gas and oil. (For the list and links, see our Hot Topic here.) It’s hard to believe that just a few years ago, virtually no one had heard of fracking; our archives for 2009 include only 192 stories on the topic. [Emphasis added]