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Fracking

A natural gas compressor station on a hillside Septem in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. The area is situated above the Marcellus Shale, where a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into horizontally drilled wells to stimulate the release of the gas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Pennsylvania’s Gas Industry Used 160 Million Pounds of Secret Chemicals From 2012 to 2022, a New Report Says

By Jon Hurdle
A car drives by a home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Research by Public Health Experts Shows ‘Damning’ Evidence on the Harms of Fracking

By Jon Hurdle
An aerial view of a natural gas pipeline under construction in Smith Township, Pennsylvania, in October 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

The Biden Administration Has Begun Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas ‘Gathering Lines.’ The Industry Isn’t Happy

By Craig R. McCoy
An injection well in Western Pennsylvania. Credit: FracTracker.org

Answers About Old Gas Sites Repurposed as Injection Wells for Fracking’s Toxic Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed

By Jake Bolster
A truck filled with gas departs a newly completed gas well. The flare is burning because the infrastructure to transport the gas via pipelines was not yet complete. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

A Rural Pennsylvania Community Goes to Commonwealth Court, Trying to Stop a New Disposal Well for Toxic Fracking Wastewater

By Jake Bolster
Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster
Kimberly Laskowsky sits in her living room in Marianna, Washington County, approximately 850 feet from EQT's Gahagan well pad.

‘It’s Just Too Close’: Pennsylvanians Who Live Near Fracking Suffer as Governments Fail to Buffer Homes

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource
In Pennsylvania, 40 percent of the watersheds that provide water for natural gas fracking contain small streams, according to FracTracker. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

A Fracker in Pennsylvania Wants to Take 1.5 Million Gallons a Day From a Small, Biodiverse Creek. Should the State Approve a Permit?

By Jake Bolster
Fracking protestors

Ohio Injection Wells Suspended Over ‘Imminent Danger’ to Drinking Water

By Dani Kington, Athens County Independent
A natural gas compressor station on a hillside in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Appalachian Economy Sees Few Gains From Natural Gas Development, Report Says

By Jon Hurdle
Limestone canyons line the lower Pecos River near its confluence with the Rio Grande. The Pecos flows from New Mexico into the Permian Basin in Texas before eventually flowing into the Amistad Reservoir at the Rio Grande. The river has been discussed as a potential target for produced water discharges. Credit: Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images.

Standards Still Murky for Disposing Oilfield Wastewater in Texas Rivers

By Martha Pskowski
A home in Calvert, Pa., with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Fracking Linked to Increased Cases of Lymphoma in Pennsylvania Children, Study Finds

By Jon Hurdle
File photo: A horizontal gas drilling rig in the Marcellus Shale outside Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Massive quantities of water, sand and chemicals, many exempt from regulation under the "Halliburton amendment," are pumped into the wells at high pressure as part of the fracking process. Credit: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images.

‘Halliburton Loophole’ Allows Fracking Companies to Avoid Chemical Regulation

By Jon Hurdle
Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense
Two 18-wheel tractor trailers carry fresh water to natural gas wells being fracked in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. After injection into the wells at high pressure, wastewater returns to the surface and is either recycled and used to frack other wells, stored above ground, or injected in storage wells below ground. The wastewater typically contains numerous toxic chemicals used in the fracking process as well as natural contaminants, such as arsenic, radium and salts. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

A Pennsylvania Community Wins a Reprieve on Toxic Fracking Wastewater

By Jon Hurdle
A stock pond south of Dallas dries up due to drought conditions. Across Texas, drought is taxing reservoirs and rivers and groundwater aquifers are being pumped faster than they can recharge. Currently, more than half the state is in drought. Credit: Paul Buck/AFP via Getty Images.

Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth

By Martha Pskowski
David Shifflett, a farmer in Reeves County, parses records of his protests to the Texas Railroad Commission against permits for nearby wastewater injection wells.

Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune  
Three trucks go past a farm near Dimock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

In Dimock, a Pennsylvania Town Riven by Fracking, Concerns About Ties Between a Judge and a Gas Driller

By Kiley Bense

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