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, Pennsylvania's environmental officials fined Pennsylvania-based Atlas Resources after a series of violations at 13 wells, including spills of fracturing fluids and other contaminants onto the ground around the sites. And just last week the agency fined M.R. Dirt, a company that removes waste from drilling sites, $6,000 for spilling more than seven tons of drilling dirt along a public road.
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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 oil … 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 … more…
Interactive: Search Gas Drilling Data in Your State
As part of our report on the strain that the nationwide boom in gas drilling has placed on state regulators, we collected and … 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 rocky … more…
Drilling Wastewater Disposal Options in N.Y. Report Have Problems of Their Own
Dec. 29: This story has been updated and clarified.
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A Fracking Mischaracterization
The headline on Tuesday’s editorial in Investor’s Business Daily – “Get the Frackin’ Gas” – is both clever and on the mark. The … more…
Chemicals Sneak Past Law Regulating Tap Water
This is one of our editors' picks from our ongoing roundup of Investigations Elsewhere.
The New York Times' latest story in its … 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 was … 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 to … 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 … more…
October 23, 2009
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May 04, 2009
Industries Push for Free Pollution Credits Stephen Power, Wall Street Journal ($), May 04, 2009
April 27, 2009
Without Superfund Tax, Stimulus Aids Cleanups John M. Broder, New York Times, April 27, 2009
April 13, 2009
Utility Rejects Many Requests to Buy Land Tainted by Tenn. Coal-Ash Spill AP, April 13, 2009
March 25, 2009
Lobbyists Are Winners of Stimulus’ Clean-Tech Push Tim Mullaney, Bloomberg, March 25, 2009
March 20, 2009
Report Finds Major Decline in Some Bird Populations Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, March 20, 2009
March 17, 2009
Stimulus Money Puts Clean Coal Projects on a Faster Track Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, March 17, 2009
March 10, 2009
Gov’t Forcing Wildlife Group to ID Leak’s Source Pete Yost, AP, March 10, 2009
March 09, 2009
EPA Reconsiders Air Pollution Rules Wade Rawlins, News & Observer, March 09, 2009
What the Stimulus Does for Renewable Energy Kenneth T. Walsh, US News & World Report, March 09, 2009
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