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Matt and Nick talk about some of the long term effects of Fracking for this week’s Feature Story.

Their Quick Hits of the week include California’s potential energy blackouts (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-11/a-wildfire-is-pushing-california-toward-the-brink-of-blackouts?cmpid=BBD071221_GREENDAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=210712&utm_campaign=greendaily),

football-sized goldfish (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/people-dumped-their-pets-into-lakes-officials-say-now-football-size-goldfish-are-taking-over/ar-AAM2q5b?ocid=BingNewsSearch),

how mussels and clams have been impacted by the recent heat waves in the PNW (https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/10/weather/heat-sea-life-deaths-trnd-scn/index.html),

how those heat waves impact salmon (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/climate/marine-heat-wave.html), Australian environmental groups request to the United Nations (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/13/australian-environment-groups-urge-un-to-put-great-barrier-reef-on-in-danger-list?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter),

and some truly great news about the Giant Panda (https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014593425/china-giant-pandas-endangered-vulnerable-iucn)!

Additional sources for this week’s feature story include the following articles:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401#:~:text=What%20is%20fracking%3F%20Fracking%20is%20the%20process%20of,flow%20out%20to%20the%20head%20of%20the%20well, https://seedscientific.com/fracking-statistics/#:~:text=Fracking%20Statistics%20in%20the%20U.S.%201%20Over%201.7,can%20cause%20the%20U.S.%20...%20More%20items...%20,

and https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/climate/epa-pfas-fracking-forever-chemicals.html