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Abrahm Lustgarten

Abrahm Lustgarten
Read Abrahm Lustgarten's e-book, Hydrofracked? One Man’s Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling, on your Kindle or mobile device.

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Abrahm Lustgarten writes about energy, water, climate change and anything else having to do with the environment. Before coming to ProPublica in 2008, he was a staff writer and contributor for Fortune, and has written for Wired, Salon, Esquire, the Washington Post and the New York Times. At ProPublica, his investigation into fracking for natural gas was recognized with the George Polk award for environmental reporting, a National Press Foundation award for best energy writing, a Sigma Delta Chi award and was a finalist for Harvard's Goldsmith Prize. His reporting on BP and the Deepwater Horizon tragedy was nominated for an Emmy.

Abrahm earned his master's in journalism from Columbia University in 2003 and is the author of Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, and also China’s Great Train: Beijing’s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet, a project that was funded in part by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Articles (page 6 of 6)

Setting the Record Straight on Hydraulic Fracturing

Where Things Stand: Environmental Pitfalls of Drilling for Natural Gas in the U.S.

Congress to Obama: Undo Bush’s Natural Gas Record

How the West’s Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans

NYC: Gas Drilling Will Raise the Cost of Water by 30 Percent

Rushed Interior Dept. Rule Overrides Congress; Allows Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon

NYC Wants Consultants to Probe Effect of Gas Drilling on Drinking Water

New Mexico Battles Feds to Stop Gas Drilling Near an Aquifer

Slideshow: Wyoming’s Natural Gas Fields

A Reporter’s Journey Through the Gas Fields

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies?

State Environmental Dept. a No-Show at Drilling Meeting

Fractured Relations—New York City Sees Drilling as Threat to Its Water Supply

Despite New York’s Order for Environmental Review, Gas Drilling May Proceed

Governor Signs Drilling Bill But Orders Environmental Update

New York State Tightens Drilling Controls

New York’s Gas Rush Poses Environmental Threat

Abrahm Lustgarten
Read Abrahm Lustgarten's e-book, Hydrofracked? One Man’s Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling, on your Kindle or mobile device.

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