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Fracking

Bill McKibben delivers a speech during his Do the Math Tour
The Most Influential Climate Science Paper Today Remains Unknown to Most People
Just six pages long, it is stoking a new moral urgency for climate action and forcing the financial world to reconsider the value of fossil fuel reserves.
It is probably the most influential paper on climate science today. But few outside scientific...
By Katherine Bagley
Feb 14, 2013 | Read More
Map of primary aquifers and Marcellus Shale extent in NY
Waterless Fracking Method Could Sidestep NY Gas Drilling Ban
Amid skepticism from engineers and environmentalists, landowners and drilling company bet on LPG fracking, which uses propane instead of water.
A plan to extract shale gas and oil from 135,000 acres in Tioga County, N.Y., could break through...
By Anthony Brino, InsideClimate News
Apr 16, 2012 | Read More
The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles, Calf.
Fracking in L.A.? Test Wells at Urban Oil Field Spark Water Worries
300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the test wells, fracked to reach oil once considered too expensive to extract.
Earlier this year, the oil company Plains Exploration and Production (PXP) blasted water and...
By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News
Apr 12, 2012 | Read More
Natural gas drilling on the Pinedale Anticline in Wyoming.
Tiny Doses of Gas Drilling Chemicals May Have Big Health Effects
Authors of new study encourage more low-dose testing of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, with implications for the debate on natural gas drilling.
The higher the dose, the more dangerous the toxin—that principle is the basis for most regulatory...
By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News
Mar 21, 2012 | Read More
Tanks labeled as "Brine Water" on a property in Dimock, Pa.
New Waterless Fracking Method Avoids Pollution Problems, But Drillers Slow to Embrace It
Little-noticed drilling technique uses propane gel, not water, to release natural gas. Higher cost, lack of data and industry habit stand in the way.
ALBANY, N.Y.—In the debate over hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, two facts are beyond dispute...
By Anthony Brino, InsideClimate News, and Brian Nearing, Albany Times-Union
Nov 6, 2011 | Read More
Aerial view of a frac sand mining operation in Wisconsin
Sand Mining Emerges as Another Gas Fracking Threat in the U.S.
According to environmentalists and residents of affected areas, sand mining processes used in fracking pose a threat to air and water quality.
HOUSTON, Texas—Fracking, the latest craze in the quest to produce oil and gas, has been blamed for...
By Anna Driver, Reuters
Sep 21, 2011 | Read More
Fracking at Drinking Water Source for 80,000 Pennsylvanians Raises Alarms
Documents and interviews reveal that one Pa. water utility has already leased its watershed to gas drillers — and many others are being courted
Cynthia Walter, an ecologist at St. Vincent College outside Pittsburgh, gets a lot of emails from...
By Anthony Brino
Jul 19, 2011 | Read More
Speaker Sheldon Silver
New York Assembly Extends Fracking Ban for Another Year
The NYS Assembly passed a one-year ban on new drilling permits that would run through June 1, 2012, replacing the current ban set to expire this summer
ALBANY, New York—The New York State Assembly on Monday passed a one-year moratorium on hydraulic...
By Dan Wiessner, Reuters
Jun 7, 2011 | Read More
Marcellus Shale
Flammable Methane in Drinking Water Near Fracking Wells, Study Finds
A study on the impact of fracking in Pennsylvania and New York shows water within1 kilometer of gas wells has methane levels over 17 times normal
For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing...
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
May 10, 2011 | Read More
Barn in Montrose Susquehanna County, Pa.
Some Seekers of Rural Life Move Out of Pennsylvania as Gas Rigs Move In
The Aubrees were the lone holdouts against a developer's plan to tap gas in their small town. Now, living in the shadow of drilling rigs, they're leaving
Editor's Note: SolveClimate News reporter Elizabeth McGowan traveled to Northeastern Pennsylvania...
Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News
May 3, 2011 | Read More