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 …
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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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Final Impact Assessment Report of Natural Gas Production in the New York City Water Supply Watershed
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, …
By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer, December 3, 2009: 9:55 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — “Drill baby drill” is …
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 …
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 …
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…
Environmentalist: Firms drilling for natural gas would ‘destroy’ local state game lands
By JESSICA COHEN, Community News Writer, October 09, 2009, Pocono Record
Pat Carullo’s voice bursts from the phone. He’s yelling.
“There’ll be thousands of trucks driving trough 20,000 …
By ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN Special to the Times Union, Thursday, October 8, 2009
A preliminary report from a consultant hired by New York City warns that “nearly every activity” associated with natural …