Democrats Call for Studies as Industry Assails Proposals to Regulate Hydraulic Fracturing
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Legislators who've been pushing a bill to regulate a controversial natural gas … more…
Lax Laws Often Govern Waste Pits
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The Ground Water Protection Council report (PDF) that analyzed state oil and gas regulations also raises … more…
Map: Number of Producing Gas Wells
Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data
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The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regula … more…
The Story So Far: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat
The push to find clean domestic energy has zeroed the country in on one resource it has plenty of: natural gas. Vast deposits large … more…
FRAC Act—Congress Introduces Twin Bills to Control Drilling and Protect Drinking Water
June 10: This post has been corrected.
In a widely expected move that is sure to draw the ire of the oil and gas industry, Democrat … more…
New York State Drilling Bill Would Override State Regulators to Protect Water
Oil and gas industry representatives have been singing the praises of state environmental regulations in recent weeks as they work to … more…
Industry Defends Federal Loophole for Drilling Before Packed Congressional Hearing
In a packed and sometimes contentious hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, representatives of the oil and gas industry and their stat … more…
Natural Gas Drilling Debate Heats Up
Tomorrow a House Natural Resources subcommittee will hold its first hearing of 2009 on controversial issues related to the burgeoning … more…
Natural Gas Politics
Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean … more…
EPA Administrator Forecasts Potential Shift on Bush-Era Drilling Loophole
Signaling the potential for an important policy reversal, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a congr … more…
16 Cattle Drop Dead Near Mysterious Fluid at Gas Drilling Site
ProPublica has been reporting for months about how natural gas drilling is affecting the environment, but of all the causes for co … more…
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Update 6/9: Congress Introduces Twin Bills to Control Drilling and Protect Drinking Water
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Anatomy of a Gas Well
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Several layers of steel casing typically enclose a well bore. The empty spaces between can be sealed … more…
Colorado Study Links Methane in Water to Drilling
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Jesse Ellsworth thought something was wrong with his water when it began to … more…
Clean Natural Gas? Not in My Backyard
Got bubbles? Alarms have been ringing for months about the risk that natural gas drilling poses to drinking water supplies, but recen … more…
Gas Drilling Update: An Industry Setback in Utah, Plus an Overview From FLYP Media
A U.S. District Court judge put the brakes on a 110,000-acre last-minute sale of federal lands for natural gas drilling in Utah last … more…
Setting the Record Straight on Hydraulic Fracturing
In his Jan. 10 column in the Rocky Mountain News, Independence Institute analyst David Kopel significantly misstates the record on th … more…
Where Things Stand: Environmental Pitfalls of Drilling for Natural Gas in the U.S.
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Congress to Obama: Undo Bush’s Natural Gas Record
Calls to reverse the oil and gas leases the Bush administration has sold in western states grew louder Monday when 58 members of Cong … more…
February 05, 2010
Unexpectedly, Public Comments Favor Drilling Stephen Power, Wall Street Journal, February 05, 2010
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