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Fracking

John Fetterman’s Evolution on Climate Change, Fracking and the Environment

Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, now running for U.S. Senate, supported carbon caps when he was mayor of Braddock and a fracking moratorium during his unsuccessful 2016 Senate campaign. Now, Fetterman balances the “existential threat” of climate change with a need for “energy security.”

By Kiley Bense

John Fetterman speaks with supporters during his meet and greet campaign stop while running for Senate at the Interstate Drafthouse in Philadelphia on Sunday, April 3, 2016. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call
An oil drilling rig is pictured on April 24, 2020 near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Why Won’t the Environmental Protection Agency Fine New Mexico’s Greenhouse Gas Leakers?

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Katie Hannigan performs at The Stress Factory Comedy Club on Jan. 19, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Hannigan is one of nine members of the new Climate Comedy Cohort. Credit: Bobby Bank/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Laughing About Climate Change, Fighting With Water and Investigating the Health Impacts of Fracking

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks during a Republican leadership forum at Newtown Athletic Club on May 11, 2022 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

In the Race for Pennsylvania’s Open U.S. Senate Seat, Candidates from Both Parties Support Fracking and Hardly Mention Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

By Liza Gross

Dr. Mehmet Oz attends The 2022 Champions Of Jewish Values Gala at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 20, 2022 in New York City. A TV personality, Dr. Oz is running as a Republican for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

As a Senate Candidate, Mehmet Oz Supports Fracking. But as a Celebrity Doctor, He Raised Significant Concerns

By Kiley Bense

A soybean field lies in front of a natural gas drilling rig Sept. 8, 2012 in Fairfield Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Getty Images

For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents

By James Bruggers

Oil pump jacks operate at the Inglewood Oil Field in Culver City, California, on July 11, 2021. Credit: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images

To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground

By Nicholas Kusnetz

View from Pennsylvania to New Jersey over the Delaware River. Credit: Jumping Rocks/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

The Riverkeeper’s Quest to Protect the Delaware River Watershed as the Rains Fall and Sea Level Rises

By Daelin Brown

A new study shows the potential for widespread surface water pollution from hydraulic fracturing like at this drilling site in Western Colorado. Credit: Bob Berwyn

Surface Water Vulnerable to Widespread Pollution From Fracking, a New Study Finds

By Bob Berwyn

North Dakota, Using Taxpayer Funds, Bailed Out Oil and Gas Companies by Plugging Abandoned Wells

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Threaded drilling pipes are stacked at a hydraulic fracturing site owned by EQT Corp. located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Decade Into the Fracking Boom, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Haven’t Gained Much, a Study Says

By James Bruggers

Climate activists protested the construction of the Perennial fracked gas power plant on Oct. 30 by delivering a letter to the offices of Gov. Kate Brown and Department of Energy Director Janine Benner demanding they take steps to terminate Perennial’s pe

Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

By Ilana Cohen

A hydro-fracking drilling pad for oil and gas operates on Oct. 26, 2017 in Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Five Things To Know About Fracking in Pennsylvania. Are Voters Listening?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Activity at a Bakken oil well pad south of Watford City, North Dakota. Credit: William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images

The $16 Million Was Supposed to Clean Up Old Oil Wells; Instead, It’s Going to Frack New Ones

By Nicholas Kusnetz

U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

In Final Debate, Trump and Biden Display Vastly Divergent Views—and Levels of Knowledge—On Climate

By Georgina Gustin

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence participate in the vice-presidential debate at Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah on Oct. 7, 2020. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Pence-Harris Showdown Came up Well Short of an Actual 'Debate' on Climate Change

By Ilana Cohen, Marianne Lavelle

Hickenlooper and Gardner

Senate 2020: In Colorado, Where Climate Matters, Hickenlooper is Favored to Unseat Gardner

By Judy Fahys

In a report on Thursday, a special state investigative grand jury said Pennsylvania agencies failed to protect citizens from adverse health effects of fracking in the state. Credit: Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General

Pennsylvania Grand Jury Faults State Officials for Lax Fracking Oversight

By Marianne Lavelle

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