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A Firm Planning a Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Goes Silent as Lawmakers Seek to Ban Use of CO2 in Quest for Gas

A Texas entrepreneur has proposed an end run around the state’s ban on hydraulic fracturing by using carbon dioxide instead of water to extract methane from shale formations. New York’s anti-fracking coalition has coalesced to make sure the project fails.

By Peter Mantius

A fracked-methane gas pipeline under construction in Peekskill, N.Y. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Alberta, B.C. Loosen Fracking Rules and Lure Drillers

By Nicholas 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

New Pacific Corp Natural Gas fired power generating plant in Lindon.

No Fix for Warming with Natural Gas

By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters

Fracking Boom Brings Business to Water Treatment Firms

By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News

Old oil rig

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Tainting U.S. Drinking Water

By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica

Wyoming Survey Points to High Incidence of 'Fracking' Related Health Problems

By Stacy Feldman

Shale Gas Booming Globally, Despite Chemical Dangers

By Amy Westervelt

To Drill or Not To Drill (Part II)

by Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal

To Drill or Not To Drill (Part 1)

By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal

Congress Considers Fracking Regulation Amid Hodgepodge of State Drilling Rules

By Dave Levitan

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