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Congress Launches Investigation Into Gas Drilling Practices

by Sabrina Shankman and Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - February 19, 2010 10:33 am EDT

Two of the largest companies involved in natural gas drilling have acknowledged pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel-ba … more

Pennsylvania’s Gas Wells Booming—But So Are Spills

by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - January 27, 2010 4:08 pm EDT

As more gas wells are drilled in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale, more cases of toxic spills are being reported. Earlier this month, P … more

Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don’t Know

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - December 31, 2009 2:48 pm EDT

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

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - December 30, 2009 12:38 pm EDT

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

by Joaquin Sapien and Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - December 29, 2009 12:00 am EDT

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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In New Gas Wells, More Drilling Chemicals Remain Underground

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - December 27, 2009 8:12 am EDT

This story was co-published with Politico.

 

For more than a decade the energy industry has steadfastly argued before courts, C … more

Environmentalists: Revise Gas Drilling Review? Nope – Repeal It!

by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - December 4, 2009 6:12 pm EDT

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

New Yorkers Tell State Enviro Department: ‘No Fracking Way’

by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - November 11, 2009 3:42 pm EDT

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

Pennsylvania Tells Drilling Company to Clean Up Its Act

by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - November 6, 2009 9:40 am EDT

After a year of chemical spills, water well contamination and an explosion caused by leaking underground methane, Cabot Oil and Gas C … more

Does Chesapeake’s No-Drilling Pledge Do Enough to Protect NYC’s Watershed?

by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - November 3, 2009 2:40 pm EDT

Last week, the largest natural gas lease holder in New York state issued two slightly different messages about its plans for drilling … more

Feisty Audience Tackles Natural Gas Drilling Report

by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - October 29, 2009 4:51 pm EDT

At the first public hearing of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's review of natural gas drilling, one speaker su … more

New York Drilling Study a Step Forward

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - October 22, 2009 11:00 pm EDT

New York's recently released review of the environmental risks (PDF) posed by natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale offers … more

Map: Number of Producing Gas Wells

July 8, 2009 4:55 am EDT

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Gas Industry Girds to Fight in the Senate Over Climate Ben Casselman, Ben Casselman, August 20, 2009

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State Parks Targeted for Oil, Gas Drilling Julie Carr Smyth, AP, August 17, 2009

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