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Hydraulic Fracturing

Feds Punt on Leadership Over Fracking Rules

New BLM rule stands up well next to state regulations, says one scientist. "But unfortunately, that's because most state regulations are very poor."

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
Anti-fracking protestors in Ohio

Ohio: Dumping Ground for Frack Wastewater

By Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News

Opponenet of fracking

NY Weighs 66,000 Fracking Comments

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Map of primary aquifers and Marcellus Shale extent in NY

Waterless Fracking Could Sidestep NY Drilling Ban

By Anthony Brino, InsideClimate News

The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles, Calf.

Fracking Comes to Los Angeles

By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News

Natural gas drilling on the Pinedale Anticline in Wyoming.

Fracking Chemicals: Are Tiny Doses Safe?

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Natural gas drilling rig in Colorado.

BLM Regs Vague on Fracking Secrecy

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

A drilling rig stands over a natural gas well in Colorado

Study: 4% of Gas Escaping from Wells

By Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News

Fracking Linked to Water Pollution

By Abrahm Lustgarten and Nick Kusnetz, ProPublica

A GasFrac well pad in Alberta, Canada

Exclusive: Q&A with Inventor of Waterless Fracking

By Anthony Brino, InsideClimate News

Drill rig in a natural gas field in Wyoming

Fracking Chemical Found in Wyo. Aquifer

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Tanks labeled as "Brine Water" on a property in Dimock, Pa.

No More Tainted Water with New Fracking Method

By Anthony Brino, InsideClimate News, and Brian Nearing, Albany Times-Union

Aerial view of a frac sand mining operation in Wisconsin

Sand Mining Emerges as New Frack Danger

By Anna Driver, Reuters

Fracking at Drinking Source Raises Alarms

By Anthony Brino

BrightSource Energy’s Solar Energy Development Center in Israel’s Negev Desert.

Droughts Threaten New Energy Plans: Study

By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian

Marcellus Shale

More Evidence Links Polluted Water to Fracking

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Barn in Montrose Susquehanna County, Pa.

Some Pa. Landowners Move Out, as Gas Rigs Move In

Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

EPA Demands Frack Data from Blowout

Timothy Gardner, Reuters

Tower for horizontal drilling

The Footprint of a Natural Gas Boom, by the Numbers

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

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