EARTHWORKS Library
A Human Rights Assessment of Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas
PUBLICATION DATE: December 12, 2011
AUTHOR: Environment and Human Rights Advisory
SUMMARY: This human rights report is intended to detail for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and for Earthworks' Oil and Gas Accountability Project, specific ways in which hydraulic fracturing threatens to compromise human rights norms.
Comments to the EPA regarding the draft air pollution rule for hydraulic fracturing
PUBLICATION DATE: November 30, 2011
AUTHOR: Earthworks, Powder River Basin Resource Council, San Juan Citizens Alliance
SUMMARY: Comments opposing the gap for existing emission sources, and joint comments opposing the exclusion of coal bed methane wells
Disclosure recommendations for the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission
PUBLICATION DATE: November 2, 2011
AUTHOR: New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Hydraulic Fracturing and the FRAC Act: Frequently Asked Questions
PUBLICATION DATE: September 15, 2011
AUTHOR: American Rivers * Delaware Riverkeeper * Earthjustice * Earthworks * Environment America * EWG * NRDC * OMB Watch * Sierra Club * The Wilderness Society
Protecting Health, Ensuring Accountability
PUBLICATION DATE: May 2, 2011
SUMMARY: The FRAC Act would close a loophole in the Safe Drinking Water Act. Consequently, EPA could regulate hydraulic fracturing, and oil & gas companies would have to publicly disclose the types, amounts, and combinations of chemicals they use in their hydraulic fracturing processes.
Testimony in support of hydraulic fracturing disclosure in Montana
PUBLICATION DATE: January 21, 2011
AUTHOR: Jennifer Goldman
Panel 1: Health impacts from drilling, fracking, waste pits and gas production
PUBLICATION DATE: November 19, 2010
Letter supporting disclosure of hydraulic fracturing chemicals amendment to the Safe Drinking Water
PUBLICATION DATE: May 25, 2010
Methane and Volatile Organic Chemicals in Air in DISH
PUBLICATION DATE: May 4, 2010
AUTHOR: Wilma Subra
Methane and Volatile Organic Chemicals in Air in Flower Mound
PUBLICATION DATE: May 4, 2010
AUTHOR: Wilma Subra
EARTHWORKS’ oral testimony at 2010 EPA fracking study scoping hearing
PUBLICATION DATE: April 8, 2010
AUTHOR: Bruce Baizel, Gwen Lachelt, Lauren Pagel
Pipeline Safety - What Local Communities Want to Know
PUBLICATION DATE: November 6, 2009
AUTHOR: Wilma Subra
Safe Drinking Water Act should cover hydraulic fracturing
PUBLICATION DATE: June 9, 2009
AUTHOR: Bruce Baizel & Dusty Horwitt
How hydraulic fracturing works
PUBLICATION DATE: February 2, 2009
AUTHOR: Jennifer Goldman & Lisa Sumi
Marcellus Shale Formation Report 08
PUBLICATION DATE: June 12, 2008
AUTHOR: Lisa Sumi
SUMMARY: An EARTHWORKS / OGAP report on potential oil and gas development in northeastern Pennsylvania and southeastern New York.
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