December 1, 2010
The Energy Collective
The shale deposits that have the US gas industry so excited were studied after WWII by the Atomic Energy Commission and declared to be the largest uranium resource in the US. Because the gas industry is now …
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November 16, 2010
How many water supplies have been impacted by gas drilling? Pa. doesn’t keep count
By Laura Legere (Staff Writer), The Times-tribune, November 14, 2010
By Laura Legere (Staff Writer), The Times-tribune, November 14, 2010
Strengthened oil and gas regulations to be considered by a state review board this week will …
November 2, 2010
River Reporter Editorial
At the public comment portion of the UDC meeting on February 3, Barbara Arrindell of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) asked Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) representative Clarke Rupert whether the agency considers public comments on proposed …
October 26, 2010
Lupo, PJ, E Symanski, DK Waller, MA Canfield and LE Mitchellet. 2010.
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
Pregnant women living in Texas neighborhoods with higher air levels of benzene – a pollutant oftenreleased from oil refineries and traffic exhaust – are more …
October 25, 2010
University of Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientific and political disputes over drilling Marcellus shale for natural gas have focused primarily on the environmental effects of pumping millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep underground to blast through rocks to …
October 19, 2010
A Dream Dashed by the Rush on Gas. Exploring the promise and challenge of a new energy supply.
Marianne Lavelle, National Geographic News, October 17, 2010
Marianne Lavelle, National Geographic News, October 17, 2010
Chris and Stephanie Hallowich say they tried to choose carefully when they were seeking …
October 12, 2010
By Sandy Bauers, Philadelphia Inquirer
A preliminary study by Academy of Natural Sciences researchers suggests that even without spills or other accidents, drilling for natural gas in Pennsylvania’s rich Marcellus Shale formation could degrade nearby streams.
The researchers compared watersheds …
October 5, 2010
Mary Bernard, Vernal Express
High levels of ozone pollution measured in rural Uintah County last winter have federal officials and others concerned about a growing public health risk.
In order to improve air quality tighter regulatory controls may be brought …
October 3, 2010
Aman Batheje, Star-Telegram
Questions over how natural gas drilling affects air quality have raged across North Texas this year, with much of the focus on toxins including benzene and toluene. But more questions are coming up about a chemical more …
October 1, 2010
Violating the bedrock, the atmosphere, and everything in between
By Sandra Steingraber, Orion magazine, September/October 2010
By Sandra Steingraber, Orion magazine, September/October 2010
I HAVE COME to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. …
September 16, 2010
Prepared for: Independent Oil and Gas Association
Introduction
By letter dated April 12, 2010, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(DEC), Division of Mineral Resources, requested additional technical information from the
Independent Oil and Gas Association of New …
September 14, 2010
Democracy Now, democracynow.org
The Environmental Protection Agency has begun public hearings in Binghamton, New York on hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a controversial technique that mining companies use to extract natural gas from rock formations thousands of feet underground. The hearings …
