Read the full story in the Washington Examiner. A divided Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said Friday it won’t make broad evaluations about the impact of
Category: Oil and gas industry
Fracking chemicals “imbalance” the immune system
Read the full story in Environmental Health News. Chemicals commonly found in groundwater near fracked oil and gas wells appear to impair the proper functioning
The Coal Industry Extracted a Steep Price From West Virginia. Now Natural Gas Is Leading the State Down the Same Path.
Read the full story from ProPublica. Today, West Virginia’s headlong race into the gas rush is taking the state down the same path that it’s
Home values are another casualty of fracking
Read the full story in Pacific Standard. In Oklahoma, major earthquakes—virtually unknown in the state until the fracking boom—depress property values.
In A Methane Hot Spot, Environmental Politics Roil A County Commission
Read the full story in the Huffington Post. An effort to recall a Colorado county commissioner has become a proxy argument over rules to limit
New database tracks how Big Oil targets small communities
Read the full story at Ecologist. A new database tracks the local-level deals that allow fossil fuel companies to greenwash their image and cheaply purchase
