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Freelance reporter covering environmental stories based in the PNW. Previously with Al Jazeera America in New York City, and Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar

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Record Number of Americans Worried about Climate Change, but will it matter?

The number of Americans who worry “a great deal” about climate change rose from 37 percent in 2016 to 45 … More

americans, an inconvenient truth, attitudes, climate anxiety, climate change, climate comment, earthquakes, fracking, gallup poll, gas, oil, oklahoma, opinion, recession, renee lewis, scott pruitt, tillerson, trump, united states

Group seeks fracking ban in Texas town

By Renee Lewis / Al Jazeera America / Feb. 19, 2014 A group of residents from a heavily drilled Texas … More

al jazeera, climate change, Denton, environment, fossil fuel, fracking, fracking ban, gas, hydraulic fracturing, oil, politics, pollution, public health, renee lewis, safety, Texas

House Democrats call for hearing on oil and gas spills in Colorado floods

By Renee Lewis / Al Jazeera America / Sept. 29, 3013 Two House Democrats are urging Congress to investigate oil and … More

al jazeera, clean water, colorado, drilling, energy, EPA, flooding, fracking, gary wockner, gas, hydraulic fracturing, oil, renee lewis

Oil spills in flood-hit Colorado raise concerns over industry regulation

By Renee Lewis / Al Jazeera America / Sept. 19, 2013 At least two large oil spills have been confirmed … More

al jazeera, clean water, colorado, contamination, fracking, gas, oil, pollution, renee lewis, toxic, us, weld country

Flooded oil and gas wells spark fears of contamination in Colorado

By Renee Lewis / Al Jazeera America / Sept. 18, 2013 As Colorado reels from a prolonged flooding disaster that has killed … More

al jazeera, clean air, clean water, colorado, contamination, drill, flood, gary wockner, gas, oil, renee lewis, toxic, us, weld county, well

New study links fracking to birth defects in heavily drilled Colorado

By Renee Lewis / Al Jazeera America / Jan. 30, 2013 Living near hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — sites may increase … More

al jazeera, birth defects, climate change, colorado, environment, fossil fuels, fracking, gas, health, hydraulic fracturing, oil, renee lewis

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