New Gas Drilling Rules, More Staff for Pennsylvania’s Environmental Agency
For months, the gas drilling industry and environmentalists alike have been fixated on New York, waiting for its environmental agency … more…
Pennsylvania’s Gas Wells Booming—But So Are Spills
As more gas wells are drilled in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale, more cases of toxic spills are being reported. Earlier this month, P … more…
2: Joaquin Sapien and Sabrina Shankman on Gas Drilling Wastewater
Guests Joaquin Sapien and Sabrina Shankman talk about their latest report “Drilling Wastewater Disposal Options in N.Y. Report … more…
Stricter Rules for Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Land
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has changed the procedures the Bureau of Land Management must follow before leasing federal land for o … more…
Montana Gas and Oil Regulatory Actions on the Rise
Last week, ProPublica rolled out a database tracking natural gas drilling and regulation in each of the 32 drilling states in the cou … more…
Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don’t Know
It takes brute force to wrest natural gas from the earth. Millions of gallons of chemical-laden water mixed with sand -- under eno … more…
State Oil and Gas Regulators Are Spread Too Thin to Do Their Jobs
Larry Parrish knew something was wrong as soon as he wheeled his state-owned pickup off the West Virginia highway and onto the roc … more…
Drilling Wastewater Disposal Options in N.Y. Report Have Problems of Their Own
Dec. 29: This story has been updated and clarified.
A version of this story is being published by the Albany Times-Union.
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New York City Calls for Drilling Ban in Watershed, Rejects State Study
After months of warning signs, New York City officials have called for a ban on natural gas drilling within the city’s 2,000-square- … more…
Colorado Towns Take Extra Measures to Protect Their Water From Gas Drilling
In 2005 the U.S. Bureau of Land Management offered up thousands of acres of federal land in Colorado to drilling. Because the land wa … more…
Underused Drilling Practices Could Avoid Pollution
Versions of this story were published in the Albany Times Union and the Times Herald-Record.
As environmental concerns threaten … more…
Environmentalists: Revise Gas Drilling Review? Nope – Repeal It!
There's nearly a month left in a public comment period for an environmental review of natural gas drilling in New York, but envi … more…
Familiarity Breeds Content
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Pa. Residents Sue Gas Driller for Contamination, Health Concerns
Pennsylvania residents whose streams and fields have been damaged by toxic spills and whose drinking water has allegedly been contami … more…
New Yorkers Tell State Enviro Department: ‘No Fracking Way’
It didn't take long for a New York City public hearing on natural gas drilling to descend into near chaos.
Just seconds after the f … more…
ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten on the Brian Lehrer Show
Yesterday, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show had ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten on to discuss his report about the high level of radioactive m … more…
Is New York’s Marcellus Shale Too Hot to Handle?
As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troub … more…
Pennsylvania Tells Drilling Company to Clean Up Its Act
After a year of chemical spills, water well contamination and an explosion caused by leaking underground methane, Cabot Oil and Gas C … more…
Public Gets More Time to Comment on New York’s Gas Drilling Plans
Responding to calls from politicians, environmentalists and concerned residents, the New York State Department of Environmental Conse … more…
Does Chesapeake’s No-Drilling Pledge Do Enough to Protect NYC’s Watershed?
Last week, the largest natural gas lease holder in New York state issued two slightly different messages about its plans for drilling … more…
February 05, 2010
Unexpectedly, Public Comments Favor Drilling Stephen Power, Wall Street Journal, February 05, 2010
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