February 6, 2010

Gas Sites Spur Air Worries

Fort Worth, Texas, Officials Rethink Their Longtime Support for the Gas Industry
By BEN CASSELMAN, The Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2010

The city of Fort Worth, Texas, one of the biggest beneficiaries in the natural-gas boom, is questioning its …

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 …

October 1, 2009

Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use

Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption;
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 …

August 29, 2009

US Finds Water Polluted Near Gas-Drilling Sites

Potential obstacle for U.S. energy extraction
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, …

July 21, 2009

NYS Department of Health Addresses Concerns on NYS DEC dSGEIS

Edward G. Hom, Ph.D., Director
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 …

July 1, 2009

Oil and Gas Drilling Rig Hazards

Jonathan L. Pennington, Paul Pennington, Jeffrey Bennett
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 …

October 22, 2008

Small Town, Big Changes

Want more domestic energy? Take a look at how big oil and gas companies are transforming lives in a small cow-town.
By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer, October 20, 2008: 5:21 AM ET

PINEDALE, Wyo. (CNNMoney.com)  — The United States …

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