Despite having complained for years that studies on the effect of hydrofracking on drinking water supplies are deficient because they don’t include pre-drilling water quality data on wells and water systems, the natural gas industry has been keeping that data away from researchers.
ProPublica reports:
The absence
Cornell University researchers have found that natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing creates more damaging greenhouse gas emissions than coal.
Methane leaks from hydraulic fracturing operations have not been taken into account by those promoting natural gas as a less-polluting “bridge fuel” Robert W. Howarth, Renee Santoro, and More…
Just weeks ago, sightings of oily sediment washing up on Gulf Coast shores served as a pointed reminder of the continued devastation of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill — a mystery that was never solved, despite conflicting reports attempting to find an explanation. Now, Transocean, the More…
Legislation to restore federal regulation of fracking would not protect households that draw water from private wells because such wells are not overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fracking opponents warn.
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a method of collecting methane (natural gas) from shale deposits by blasting the More…
Two Colorado congressmen whose districts include all or parts of the state’s extensively drilled and mined Western Slope had very different reactions to today’s speech on energy policy by President Barack Obama.
Obama, speaking at Georgetown University on the heels of a report he requested from the U.S. Department More…
The U.S. Dept. of Justice is considering whether to charge BP managers with manslaughter for their role in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion that killed 11 and caused the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
The Justice Dept. is looking at whether cost-cutting decisions by these managers warrant More…
The former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental crimes section said Friday that the oil and gas company Enbridge will likely face criminal charges over its 2010 Michigan pipeline rupture.
On July 26, an Enbridge oil pipeline that runs
This week the National Transportation Safety Board will hold an uncommon three-day public fact-finding hearing on the Pacific Gas & Electric pipeline explosion that killed eight and burned dozens of homes in San Bruno, Calif., last September.
As the U.S. State Dept. considers a proposal to build a nearly 2,000-mile long pipeline to transport Canadian tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, key questions about the safety of moving tar sands by pipeline remain unanswered, watchdog groups warned this week.
A week before the midterm elections, the Sierra Club today released an advertisement touting Rep. Tom Perriello’s (D-Va.) record on clean energy and attempting to tie his Republican opponent, state Sen. Robert Hurt, to the oil industry. It’s the latest effort by outside groups to influence the race. Politico reported More…
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