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Judge Sides with Wyoming in Fracking Chemical Suit
(CHEYENNE, Wyo.) — A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to make public the lists of ingredients...
The Celebrity Campaign Against Fracking: How Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Rallied an Outcry
Yoko Ono, her son Sean Lennon, and more than 180 other artists have come together to lend their star power to the anti-fracking cause. Earlier this week, they...
Political Fractures Over Fracking
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)—a five-member committee that governs the water resources around the Delaware River—was supposed to meet today to...
Fracking: Sizing Up the Quakes That Come from Hydraulic Fracturing
We already know that hydraulic fracturing—the process of injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep into the earth to exploit the natural gas...
Shale Gas: It’s Not the Fracking That Might Be the Problem. It’s Everything Else
If you were trying to invent with a term that sounds as scary as possible, you couldn’t do better than “fracking.” That’s industry terminology for hydraulic...
EPA Implicates Fracking in Groundwater Pollution
CHEYENNE, Wyo: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time has implicated fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil...
Is New York About to Get Fracking? Not Exactly
Environmentalists and gas drillers alike snapped to attention when the news alert went up earlier today: the New York Times reported that New York Governor...
Why the U.S. Fracking Industry Worries About the Weather in India
It’s all about a bean that is essential to making the technology flow, literally. In the meantime, Indian farmers have hit pay dirt.
N.Y. Court Hears Arguments on Town Fracking Bans
(ALBANY, N.Y.) — Backers of natural gas drilling and environmental advocates wrangled Thursday over whether New York's towns have the legal right to ban oil and...
Contaminated? EPA Says Fracking “Likely” Polluted Groundwater
If you report on the environmental issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing and shale natural gas, you’ll hear a certain line from gas industry representatives...
Articles from Around the Web
Obama administration issues draft fracking regulations
The Obama administration drew sharp criticism from environmental and oil industry groups Thursday when it issued a new draft of regulations for fracking on federal and Indian...
A dilemma in metro Detroit: Welcome fracking, or fear it?
People in Oakland County fear fracking and oil-and-gas drilling, as exploration firms ramp up their interest at the same time that new... to ban fracking and most drilling...
China is using up oil faster than we can produce it
Maybe you've heard that North America is producing a lot more oil these days, courtesy of fracking, tar sands and other new sources. The Atlantic has a nicely reported cover...
EPA methane report further divides fracking camps
boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change? ...
