July 21, 2013
Vera Scroggins, of Citizens for Clean Water, writes:
I called OSHA months ago to check out the silica dust clouds on the frack sites and they inspected the WPX Gas Site known as Wootton at 1283 Mill Road, Liberty, Pa. …
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July 17, 2013
Contrary to its own regulations, EPA is issuing permits for surface application of drilling wastewater
EcoWatch, July 11, 2013
EcoWatch, July 11, 2013
Millions of gallons of water laced with toxic chemicals from oil and gas drilling rigs are pumped for consumption by wildlife …
July 9, 2013
An Open Letter to President Obama from Gasland Director Josh Fox
Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary Moniz, Heather Zichal and Valerie Jarrett,
I write to request a meeting with you and families directly impacted by oil and gas …
May 16, 2013
League Offers Comments to EPA Science Advisory Board
On May 7, 2013 the League offered comments to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board on the study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. The comments …
April 23, 2013
By Lenny Bernstein and Juliet Eilperin
The Washington Post published: April 22
The Environmental Protection Agency objected Monday to the State Department’s latest review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, suggesting that more work must be done before the Obama …
February 11, 2013
When industry has blocked the EPA from studying or regulating 70,000 chemicals, (from BPA and flame retardants to potent neurotoxins), since 1975, why would regulating fracking be possible?
Posing a safety debate tempts people to ignore the unsavory thirty-year history …
February 11, 2013
By Tom Kenworthy
By Public Lands Team on Feb 8, 2013 at 10:43 am
By Public Lands Team on Feb 8, 2013 at 10:43 am
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/08/1561571/oil-gas-number-two/
Reporting for the first time on GHGs from petroleum and natural gas systems, the EPA this week said that the oil and gas sector ranked …
January 31, 2013
Joint statement by Bruce Baizel, Director of Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project, and Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel for Environmental Working Group, EWG
WASHINGTON – January 17 – A report yesterday by the Associated Press that the U.S. Environmental Protection …
December 14, 2012
EPA responds to scientists’ concerns about endocrine disruptors
By Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News, Dec. 13, 2012
Spurred by mounting scientific evidence, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a new effort to examine whether low doses of hormone-mimicking chemicals …
December 14, 2012
Schneiderman’s coalition charges that the EPA violated the Clean Air Act when it failed to address methane emissions in the August 2012 regulations.
By Casey Seiler, Capital Confidential, Dec. 11, 2012
By Casey Seiler, Capital Confidential, Dec. 11, 2012
CLICK HERE to read the letter to EPA Administrator …
December 5, 2012
Chesapeake Appalachia to pay a fine of $600,000.
By NEWS9, December 3, 2012
By NEWS9, December 3, 2012
Chesapeake Appalachia was sentenced Monday in federal court for three violations of the Clean Water Act related to natural gas drilling activity in Wetzel County, according to …
October 15, 2012
Validity of initial water sampling results confirmed
By Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, October 11, 2012
By Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, October 11, 2012
In December of last year, Ars reported on a major EPA study in Pavillion, Wyoming that concluded hydraulic fracking operations there had contaminated the …
