The Campaign Contributions & Lobbying Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in Pennsylvania
Introduction
Pennsylvania has often been described as the “Wild West” of campaign financing. Ours is one of only eleven …
STAMFORD, Conn., May 4 (UPI)
The U.S. subsidiary of Statoil announced Tuesday it landed a deal to ship gas from the Marcellus shale play …
New York State environmental officials announced on Friday that they would impose far stricter regulations on a controversial type of natural gas …
Hundreds of people living near a natural-gas drilling site in northwest Louisiana have been forced to evacuate their homes after gas seeped into their drinking water.…
The Marcellus Shale field – the mammoth layer of deeply buried natural gas that runs across Pennsylvania and into neighboring Appalachian states – has promised to be an employment generator par excellence, creating tens of thousands …
A federal study of hydraulic fracturing set to begin this spring is expected to provide the most expansive look yet …
(Reuters) – Philadelphia officials asked a state regulator on Thursday to ban the natural-gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing until its environmental effects, especially …
Don’t Jump to Conclusions
Introduction
In light of the undisputed potential for environmental harm from gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the principal reason advanced for taking the environmental …
In the debate over energy resources, natural gas is often considered a “lesser-of-evils”. While it does release some greenhouse gases, natural gas burns cleaner than coal and oil, and is in plentiful supply—parts of the U.S. …
We probably all agree that if gas drilling is to be done in the Upper Delaware, a precious watershed that provides fresh water to 25 million …
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, one of the biggest beneficiaries in the natural-gas boom, is questioning its …
We probably all agree that if gas drilling is to be done in the Upper Delaware, a precious watershed that provides fresh water to 25 million people, it needs to be done in a prudent manner, with …
