Elizabeth Royte’s major new investigative report in The Nation gives voice to the urgent cries of farmers and ranchers raising alarms about the risks of fracking to human health. As her reporting makes clear, the early evidence from heavily fracked regions suggests that drilling and fracking operations represent a serious threat to the nation’s food security.

Implore your reps to support the FRAC ACT, which would remove the fracking exemption to the Safe Drinking Water Act and ensure the disclosure and monitoring of the chemicals used in the process. Then, find out about local initiatives you can join to resist the energy industry’s fracking push.

This New York Review of Books essay by Bill McKibben debunks the core arguments made in favor of fracking: "Fracked gas is not a ‘bridge fuel’ to some cleaner era, but a rickety pier extending indefinitely out into a hotter future."

Josh Fox’s “The Sky Is Pink” is an explosive eighteen-minute video revealing a slew of industry documents detailing serious concerns about well safety and water contamination connected to fracking.

A weekly guide to meaningful action, this blog connects readers with resources to channel the outrage so many feel after reading about abuses of power and privilege. Far from a comprehensive digest of all worthy groups working on behalf of the social good, Take Action seeks to shine a bright light on one concrete step that Nation readers can take each week. To broaden the conversation, we’ll publish a weekly follow-up post detailing the response and featuring additional campaigns and initiatives that we hope readers will check out. Toward that end, please use the comments field to give us ideas. With your help, we can make real change.