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By Jon Hurdle, Reuters, Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:26am EDT
(Reuters) – Louis Meeks, a burly 59-year-old alfalfa farmer, fills a metal trough with water from his well and watches an oily …
National Research Council
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy …
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Sept. 25, 2009, 12:39 p.m.
After three chemical spills in the past nine days, and following a history of environmental problems over the last …
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, September 20, 2009
Just 20 days ago, Dunkard Creek, which meanders lazily back and forth across the border of Pennsylvania and West …
By Jon Hurdle, Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:54pm EDT
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in drinking water wells near natural gas drilling operations, …
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 31, 2009, 11:29 a.m.
When methane began bubbling out of kitchen taps near a gas drilling site in Pennsylvania last winter, a state regulator …
One of the issues that has surfaced frequently in our newspaper in recent weeks has been the question of the disparity between those who would profit from and those who would pay for natural gas drilling. …
Division of Environmental Health
To: Bradley Field, Director, Division of Mineral Resources
Dear Mr. Field:
On March 10,2009 you requested that the New York State Department of Health Center for Environmental Health (CEB) review information …
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 8, 2009, 4:55 a.m.
The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic …
By JEREMY MILLER, The New York Times, June 30, 2009, 10:17 am
A bill introduced earlier this month would bring federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing fluids – chemical mixtures pumped at high pressure into …
Occupational Health and Safety Online
If you have been reading the headlines of late, you will notice an increase in the reports of accidents involving oil and gas rig drilling operations. You also …