EPA Sets Air Quality Regulations for Fracking Emissions: Effective 2015
The EPA’s First Fracking Rules — Limited and Delayed by for Lena Groeger ProPublica The Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national air pollution regulations for fracking on...
View ArticleVermont Becomes First State to Ban Fracking
In an excerpt from StateImpact’s report, the industry responds to Vermont’s decision: The American Petroleum Institute is raising questions about the measure’s constitutionality, arguing a...
View ArticleNorth Dakota’s Fracking Spills a ‘Significant Problem’
North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity by Nicholas Kusnetz for ProPublica Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller’s formerly quiet corner of western North...
View ArticleRecent Study Says Shale Brines Are Migrating to Drinking Water
New Study: Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely Seeping Into PA Drinking Water by Abrahm Lustgarten for ProPublica New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania’s...
View ArticleMethane Leaks in NYC Raise Doubt Over the Viability of Natural Gas and Fracking
New Study Exposes How Natural Gas Isn’t the Clean Fossil Fuel It’s Hyped up to Be Leakages of gas in production and distribution systems can lead to higher greenhouse gas levels than burning other...
View ArticleThe Debate About Fracking in Africa
The price of energy Is fracking for shale gas an environmental risk or could it be the golden ticket for Africa? by South to North for Al Jazeera Is fracking for shale gas an environmental and social...
View ArticleShale Energy Independence Not For Americans?
You Know the Drill by Leah McGrath Goodman for Newsweek Flying northwest of Aspen in a small aircraft – a single-engine Cessna Centurion 210 – I discreetly vomit into a bag of candy I find in the...
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