On February 1, Texas' new fracking regulations go into effect. These regulations require drillers to disclose both total water and the chemicals used in fracking. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, …
EPA Investigating Effect of Fracking on Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating the effect of fracking drinking water. Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is a technique used by oil and gas drilling companies to …
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Will the Texas Drought put the Kibbosh on Fracking?
We've talked here before about how hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," threatens clean drinking water, but fracking also requires quite a bit of water to execute. In drought-stricken Texas, local …
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The Truth About Fracking [infographic]
As the natural gas industry goes after harder-to-get-to stores of gas, it's using more extreme methods to extract it from the Earth. Hydraulic fracturing is a popular method in natural gas drilling, …
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1 in 4 Exxon Shareholders Vote to Know Gas Drilling Risk
As potentially the largest natural gas company in the US, with an imminent $41 billion merger with XTO Energy, Exxon Mobil’s cavalier attitude to fracking risk is a concern to some of its shareholder …
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EPA Finds 2-butoyethanol Solvent in Wells Near Natural Gas Extraction Sites
U.S. government scientists found chemical contaminants in Pavillion, Wyoming drinking wells that were located near natural gas drilling sites- the first time this kind of finding has been recorded. …
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