Distorting the Facts: Oil and Gas Industry Pays Penn State $100,000 for...
We're all aware that money talks, but the degree to which pro-industry interests are distorting public information on fracking was in particularly high relief this week as natural gas companies are in...
View ArticleWith the Drinking Water of 15 Million Americans at Stake, Feds Side with...
Just in case there's anybody out there who still thinks our federal government has a shred of integrity following the debt-ceiling debacle, news from the fracking front will quickly disabuse any...
View ArticleThe Holy Grail: Drinking-water Contamination Confirmed in EPA Report...
Considering all the money oil and gas companies pay their PR strategists and crisis management gurus, industry officials should have known better than to proclaim with absolute certainty that...
View ArticleEarthquake Outbreak: Arkansas Bans Fracking Operations Inside...
As if radioactive wastewater, exploding wells and flammable tap water weren't bad enough, fracking has now been tied to another environmental threat – earthquakes, thousands of them. Geologists have...
View ArticleCaving In To Fackers: Feds Move to Dismiss NY Lawsuit Aimed at Protecting the...
In a brazen pro-industry legal maneuver, the U.S. government has obtained permission from a federal judge to move to dismiss a lawsuit in New York that represents the last line of defense in protecting...
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Epic Contamination: Fracking Could Foul the Ancient Roman Hot Springs of Bath
Julius Caesar is rolling over in his grave. Some 2,000 years ago, the Romans built a magnificent temple and bathing compound around Great Britain's only hot spring. To this day, the complex in the...
View ArticleThe Fracking of America: New Website Devoted Exclusively to Tracking Our Most...
Fracking represents the most urgent environmental threat the United States has faced in 30 years. It's a threat that demands our attention and a robust national debate. An informed public is imperative...
View ArticlePutting the Brakes on the Fracking Boom: Federal Panel Warns of “Excessive...
A federal committee has formalized in a highly critical report what many of us have been shouting about for years: Fracking will cause "excessive" damage to the environment if steps aren't immediately...
View ArticleFallout from the Fracking Zone: Natural Gas Drillers Bury Toxic Sludge on...
As fracking operations are exploding across the country, so is the promise of big money – in royalties and bonuses – for property owners who allow gas companies to drill on their land. Think (in...
View ArticleThe Drinking Water “Reeks of Chemicals”: EPA Ties Fracking to Severe...
There's something very wrong with the water in Pavillion, Wyoming. It reeks of chemicals. Local health officials warned residents not to drink it after the EPA found pollution in their wells. Some...
View ArticleOhio Officials Halt Fracking Operations After “Suspicious” String of...
More evidence rumbled in over the holiday weekend tying fracking operations to earthquakes. The most recent and largest tremor – in a "suspicious" string of 11 – to hit the Youngstown area since last...
View ArticleTime Magazine Dubs Fracking America’s “Biggest Environmental Issue” of 2011
Time Magazine got it right when it outed hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as the biggest environmental concern our nation is facing as we head into the new year. Why fracking? The world's largest...
View ArticleEngineering Expert Calls Fracking a “Chillingly Effective and Thorough...
Few people know fracking better than Paul Hetzler. He's an environmental engineering technician who for years worked for New York's Department for Environmental Conservation (DEC). Mr. Hetzler managed...
View ArticleFeds Pave Way for Fracking Industry to Perpetrate Biggest Land Grab in U.S....
Officials from Central New York Oil & Gas recently informed landowner Bob Swartz that the company plans to cut "a 50-foot-wide, 400-foot-long gash through an ancient stand of trees" in his front...
View ArticleWhat Are They Hiding? “Gasland” Filmmaker Handcuffed, Escorted Out of Public...
Why would House Republicans bar an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker from last week's public hearing on hydraulic fracturing? Hmmmmmm. Could it be that they're hiding something? Nah, couldn't be –...
View ArticleDrought Dangers: Frackers in Colorado Will Have Plenty of Water But Farmers...
More upside down priorities from the western fracking front. In drought-struck Colorado, oil and gas companies will have plenty of water for their fracking operations this summer, but farmers may not...
View ArticleA Timid First Step: Obama’s Proposed Fracking Rules Don’t Go Nearly Far Enough
If there's anything we've learned in the last couple of years since the word "fracking" entered our lexicon, it's this: Natural gas drillers don't want you to know what they're up to. From the Oklahoma...
View ArticleMystery Illness and Mystery Smells: The Neighbors of America’s Fracking Boom...
Kay Allen is a nurse who deserves some answers. She works at a health clinic in Burgettstown, Pa. -- in the southwestern corner of the Keystone State where the rolling hills are now pockmarked with...
View Article“A New Right of Love”: A Pennsylvania Farmer’s Moving Anti-Fracking Eulogy To...
I've been reading a lot lately about everyday Americans getting fed up with fracking -- with the way that the big gas companies have been running roughshod over lush rolling hills and pristine farmland...
View Article“Fresh, frizzy…fracked”: What else must fracked Wyoming homeowners do to get...
Meet Louis Meeks -- a longtime landowner outside the picturesque rural community of Pavillion, Wyoming. The rolling hillsides here have hosted natural gas wells for decades, but the pace of activity...
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