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Andres Duran, a Sauzal Bonito resident, points to a crack in his chimney that he says was caused by fracking-induced earthquakes.

Fracking-Induced Earthquakes Are Menacing Argentina as Regulators Stand By

Story and photos by Katie Surma

Biologist Sandra Steingraber, an anti-fracking activist with Concerned Health Professionals of New York, speaks during a March 5 rally at the New York State Capitol in Albany. Credit: Food & Water Watch

New York State Legislature Votes to Ban CO2 Fracking, Closing a Decade-Old Loophole in State Law

By Keerti Gopal

Abby and Scott Tennant embrace at the house where the family relocated in Paden City, West Virginia, after experiencing illnesses when EQT expanded operations in the hollow they called home. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

West Virginia Families Pleaded for Help With Health Issues After Fracking Started Nearby. None Came

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Circle 6 Baptist Camp, bottom, and produced water ponds, constructed by Martin Water, top, in Lenorah on Feb. 24, 2024. The Railroad Commission approved the construction of the ponds, used to treat and recycle produced water from fracking, next to the Circle 6 Baptist Camp in the Permian Basin. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News

Railroad Commission Approves Toxic Waste Ponds Next to Baptist Camp

By Martha Pskowski

A gas drilling rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

New Demands to Measure Emissions Raise Cautious Hopes in Pennsylvania Among Environmental Sleuths Who Monitor Fracking Sites

By Jake Bolster

A drilling rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside of Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: New Rules in Pennsylvania Require Drillers to Disclose Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

A piece of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sits in Rocky Mount, Virginia on Aug. 30, 2022. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Developers Seek Big Changes to the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Southgate Extension, Amid Sustained Opposition

By Hannah Chanatry

An oil pumpjack in Kern County, California. Credit: Harika Maddala

California’s Oil Country Faces an ‘Existential’ Threat. Kern County Is Betting on the Carbon Removal Industry to Save It

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News, and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

An oil pumpjack stands idle near homes in February 2023 in Signal Hill, California. The production of oil and natural gas in the U.S. soared to record heights within the past year. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

American Petroleum Institute Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure

By Marianne Lavelle

A portion of the 350-mile Mariner East 2 natural gas pipeline under construction in Exton, Pennsylvania in June 2019. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

The Pittsburgh Foundation, Known for its Environmentalism, Shares a Lobbying Firm with the Oil and Gas Industry

By Kiley Bense

Workers in front of the Cricket Valley Power Plant in Wingdale, New York. Southern Tier Solutions wants to build up to a dozen new natural gas-fueled power plants in the state. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Plan for Gas Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Draws Muted Response from Regulators, But Outrage From Green Groups

By Peter Mantius

Biologist Sandra Steingraber attends the Build Series at Build Studio on March 10, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Bennett Raglin/WireImage

Q&A: Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber on Scientists’ Moral Obligation to Speak Out

By Liza Gross

In July 2002, then-Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker, second from right, listens to a progress report on rescue efforts at Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania. At right is Joseph A. Braffoni, of the Bureau of Deep Mine Safety, second from left is Larry Winckler, center is David Hess, Pennsylvania secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and at left is Jeffery Stanchek a mine rescue instructor for the DEP. They were coordinating efforts to reach nine miners trapped for three days. Credit: Gene J. Puskar/ AFP via Getty Images.

David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

By Jake Bolster

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

Scientist Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion and other scientist-activist groups staged a play dramatizing the threats fossil fuel development pose to the planet at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Will the American Geophysical Union Cut All Ties With the Fossil Fuel Industry?

By Liza Gross

The site of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment on Feb. 17, 2023. The train derailment happened on Feb. 3 in which 38 cars derailed, including 11 containing hazardous materials, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate for several days. Credit: US Environmental Protection Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

From Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania to Toxic Waste in Texas, Tracking Vinyl Chloride Production in the U.S.

By Kiley Bense

Storage tanks for wastewater and crude oil in Midland, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Oil or Water? Midland Says Disposal Wells Could Threaten Water Supply

By Martha Pskowski

A waste water tank truck passes on the main street of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images.

Should Toxic Wastewater From Gas Drilling Be Spread on Pennsylvania Roads as a Dust and Snow Suppressant?

By Jake Bolster

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