Watching the regulatory kabuki up in North Texas can’t inspire a lot of confidence in the increasing number of South Texans leasing their land for so-called “nontraditional” natural-gas development in the newly popular Eagle Ford Shale [see …
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Pennsylvania regulators are illegally allowing natural gas companies to withdraw water from rivers and streams for use …
HARRISBURG — Former Gov. Tom Ridge and a team of other officials at his two consulting firms will be paid $900,000 for …
A new report by the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association said the state has identified 1,435 violations by 43 Marcellus Shale drilling companies since January 2008, prompting …
A study in Krakow, Poland, corroborates New York City findings that link children’s lower IQ scores with mothers’ exposure to compounds created by burning fossil fuels
By Marla Cone, Emily Elert and Environmental Health NewsIn a sweltering summer in …
A hundred people gasped in anger and shock as Dimock Twp. resident Craig Sautner raised a milk jug of his brown …
The regulations on hydrofracking proposed by the DEC were written for existing small vertical New York wells – known in the industry as …
Concerns about the risk of water contamination and public health problems from Marcellus Shale drilling dominated a sometimes loud U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Southpointe attended …
Gas and oil companies have deflected congressional inquiries about whether they are drilling near underground drinking water sources and how they are …
RODALE NEWS, WEST TRENTON, NJ—We are at a crossroads. With the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill still with us more …
Washington, D.C.-In the wake of April’s calamitous …
Pennsylvanians are wondering if their state could become the next environmental ground zero after …
