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Written by Joshua Pribanic & Amanda Gillooly for PublicHerald.org Nine Smithfield Township natural gas leaseholders have banded together to fight a new permit from the state Department of Environmental Protection that allows more than 700,000 gallons of toxic […]
On-The-Job Deaths Spiking As Oil Drilling Quickly Expands by Andrew Schneider & Marilyn Geewax for NPR Blue-collar workers, hit hard by automation and factory offshoring, have been struggling to find high-paying jobs. One industry does offer opportunity: As baby […]
We’re scraping millions of tons of coal from the ground in Wyoming and Montana. But new oil and gas developments are shifting the energy landscape – and sparking debate on U.S. fuel and climate policy. by Gary Braasch […]
Sand mining bill could also affect iron mine, factory farms by Alison Dirr and Ron Seely for Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism The impact of a controversial bill that would restrict local government regulation of frac sand mines might […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a permit to Talisman Energy to drill a natural gas well under unleased property in Susquehanna County, according to landowners Steve and Joyce Libal and state documents provided to […]
You Know the Drill by Leah McGrath Goodman for Newsweek Flying northwest of Aspen in a small aircraft – a single-engine Cessna Centurion 210 – I discreetly vomit into a bag of candy I find in the side door of […]
Ohio Department of Natural Resources settles with two companies over Utica shale violations by Bob Downing for Akron Beacon Journal Gulfport Energy Corp. will pay a $250,000 fine, after the Ohio Department of Natural Resources discovered leaking brine […]
New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites by Theodoric Meyer for ProPublica A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in […]
The price of energy Is fracking for shale gas an environmental risk or could it be the golden ticket for Africa? by South to North for Al Jazeera Is fracking for shale gas an environmental and social risk […]
EPA’s Abandoned Wyoming Fracking Study One Retreat of Many by Abrahm Lustgarten for ProPublica When the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly retreated on its multimillion-dollar investigation into water contamination in a central Wyoming natural gas field last month, it […]
