January 29, 2010

PA’s Gas Wells Booming—But So Are Spills

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, more cases of toxic spills are being reported. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania’s environmental officials …

January 26, 2010

EPA creates tipline for reports of suspicious gas drilling activities

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 related to natural gas drilling.

In particular, the federal environmental oversight agency is encouraging …

January 20, 2010

Drilling Around the Law

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 drinking water supplies from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Federal and state regulators, meanwhile, largely …

January 6, 2010

Swimming in Natural Gas

The Greenwashing of an Industry
by Adam Federman – January 4, 2010, Earth Island Journal

There has never been a better moment for natural gas. It is the “other” fossil fuel, touted as a clean alternative to coal and oil. …

January 4, 2010

Environmental Concerns Rise in NE PA as Natural Gas Drilling Spreads

Environmental Concerns Rise in Northeastern Pennsylvania as Natural Gas Drilling Spreads
Carolyn Weaver, Voice of America, January 02, 2010

Victoria Switzer and her husband, Jim, are building what they hoped would be their retirement home in the rural hamlet of …

December 30, 2009

NYS Conference of Environmental Health Directors: Comments on dSGEIS

Conference of Environmental Health Directors (CEHD)

Comments on the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) on Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale

Dear Mr. Dahl:

The Conference of Environmental Health Directors (CEHD) has reviewed the dSGEIS on Gas Drilling …

December 25, 2009

NYC Wants Ban on Drilling in Its Watershed

New York City Wants Ban on Drilling in Its Watershed
By Jim Polson – December 23, 2009 11:13 EST

Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — New York, the largest U.S. city, called on state officials to ban drilling for natural gas in …

December 15, 2009

Final Impact Assessment Report of Natural Gas Production in the New York City Water Supply Watershed

Hazen and Sawyer, Environmental Engineers and Scientists

Executive Summary

This report presents the results of an assessment performed by the New York City Department ofEnvironmental Protection (NYCDEP) and its consultants, the Joint Venture of Hazen and Sawyer, P.C., and Leggette, …

December 5, 2009

The Domestic Drilling Backlash

From New York to Texas, energy companies have come under fire as natural gas drilling gets close to big cities
By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer, December 3, 2009: 9:55 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — “Drill baby drill” is …

November 11, 2009

Is NY’s Marcellus Shale Too Hot to Handle?


Is New York’s Marcellus Shale Too Hot to Handle?

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Nov. 9, 2009, 5:10 a.m.

As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially …

November 11, 2009

PA Lawsuit Says Drilling Polluted Water

Pennsylvania lawsuit says drilling polluted water
By Jon Hurdle, on Nov 9, 2009 9:37am EST

(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling …

November 9, 2009

Natural Gas Drilling Produces Radioactive Wastewater

Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica, Scientific American 

Wastewater from natural gas drilling in New York State is radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink

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