U.S. Energy Policies Based on Inflated Fracking Predictions: Post Carbon Institute Report
Economic predictions about the fracking industry’s potential growth have for the most part gone unquestioned — until now.
environmental effects of fracking
New Evidence Links Earthquakes to Fracking
The evidence linking fracking to earthquakes continues to pile up.
With the Boom in Oil and Gas, Pipelines Proliferate in the U.S.
The rise of U.S. oil and gas production has spurred a dramatic expansion of the nation’s pipeline infrastructure. As the lines reach into new communities and affect more property owners, concerns over the environmental impacts are growing.
How Residents of a Rural New Mexico County Fought the Fracking Barons and Won—For Now
“Querencia,” as it is used in the ordinance, means both a respect and love of place, and a safe haven from which one draws strength.
McKibben to Obama: Fracking May Be Worse Than Burning Coal
If you’re a politician, science is a bitch; it resists spin.
Oil is Back!
Despite what you may think, Americans, on average, are driving more miles every day, not fewer, filling ever more fuel tanks with ever more gasoline, and evidently feeling ever less bad about it.
What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate Movement
It turns out that the same unfixable engineering problem that sets the table for contaminating our water also contaminates the atmosphere with climate-killing methane.
Grandmothers lead U.K.-wide wave of direct action against fracking
On a U.K.-wide day of action on Monday, anti-frackers locked-on to gates to defend planned fracking sites and occupied fracking companies.
A New Frontier for Fracking: Drilling Near the Arctic Circle
Hydraulic fracturing is about to move into the Canadian Arctic, with companies exploring the region’s rich shale oil deposits
Hard facts about fracking
A new book evaluates whether natural gas is a ‘transitional fuel’ to a low-carbon future—or perhaps, more like a methadone addiction that’s tearing apart rural communities.
California Halts Injection of Fracking Waste
California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state’s drought-wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.
In the Name of Local Democracy: Let Towns, Cities Decide on Fracking
On Tuesday, the New York State Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a case that poses a simple question: Can cities and towns in the Empire State fend off potentially devastating environmental and economic damage by banning hydraulic fracturing through their zoning code?