Tainted Water Spurs Evacuations By BEN CASSELMAN, The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2010 Hundreds of people living near a natural-gas drilling site in northwest Louisiana […]
Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Marcellus Shale field – the mammoth layer of deeply buried natural gas that runs across Pennsylvania and into neighboring Appalachian states […]
Broad Scope of EPA’s Fracturing Study Raises Ire of Gas Industry by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, April 7, 2010, 7:09 a.m. A federal study of hydraulic fracturing […]
Philadelphia seeks ban on natgas-drilling method By Jon Hurdle, Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:37pm EDT (Reuters) – Philadelphia officials asked a state regulator on Thursday to […]
Prepared by: Jannette M. Barth, Ph.D. JM Barth & Associates, Inc Don’t Jump to Conclusions Introduction In light of the undisputed potential for environmental harm from gas drilling […]
PBS, Week of 3.26.10 In the debate over energy resources, natural gas is often considered a “lesser-of-evils”. While it does release some greenhouse gases, natural gas […]
Fort Worth, Texas, Officials Rethink Their Longtime Support for the Gas Industry By BEN CASSELMAN, The Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2010 The city of Fort […]
River Reporter Editorial We probably all agree that if gas drilling is to be done in the Upper Delaware, a precious watershed that provides fresh water […]
Pennsylvania’s Gas Wells Booming—But So Are Spills by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica, Jan. 27, 2010, 4:08 p.m. As more gas wells are drilled in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, […]
Laura Legere, Scranton Times-Tribune The Philadelphia office of the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a toll-free tipline on Tuesday for citizens to report “unusual or suspicious” activity […]
Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group Companies that drill for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum distillates into thousands of wells, threatening […]