The city of Fort Worth, Texas, one of the biggest beneficiaries in the natural-gas boom, is questioning its …
We probably all agree that if gas drilling is to be done in the Upper Delaware, a precious watershed that provides fresh water to 25 million people, it needs to be done in a prudent manner, with …
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 …
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 …
As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially …
After three chemical spills in the past nine days, and following a history of environmental problems over the last …
Just 20 days ago, Dunkard Creek, which meanders lazily back and forth across the border of Pennsylvania and West …
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. …
The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic …
A bill introduced earlier this month would bring federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing fluids – chemical mixtures pumped at high pressure into …
Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean water laws, Congress is having second thoughts about …
