Results for keyword: hydraulic fracturing
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Producing more power means using more water
Federal agencies often overlook the tight relationship between energy production and water use.
by Judith Lewis Mernit, Dec 12, 2012 -
A fresh focus on frack attacks
In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.
by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 01, 2012 -
Obama praises natural gas, but is there enough to satisfy U.S. demand?
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama tried to please everyone, but even his renewable energy proposals rely on finding more natural gas than may exist.
by Judith Lewis Mernit, Feb 19, 2012 -
Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming
The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking.
by John Fenton, Jan 24, 2012 -
EPA aims to clean up polluted air in Western gas fields
The federal government sets its sights on clearing the air above gas operations
by Cally Carswell, Sep 04, 2011 -
A Western mystery with an environmental twist: a review of Buried by the Roan
In Mark Stevens' second novel, Allison Coil, a tequila-drinking hunting guide, investigates a mysterious death in a remote landscape much sought after by oil and gas developers.
by Erica Olsen, Aug 07, 2011 -
Gas drilling has blighted my life
We need energy -- but not at the cost of clean water
by Louis Meeks, Oct 12, 2010 -
Frack forward
Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.
by Cally Carswell, Oct 05, 2010 -
Montanans close to Yellowstone better wake up
The oil and gas industry -- and its many environmental side effects -- are coming to Montana's Yellowstone country.
by Andrea Peacock, Sep 03, 2010 -
Frack 2, Scene 1
New York City fights drilling in its watershed, and even some energy executives say the industry needs to be more transparent about the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
by Sarah Gilman, Nov 17, 2009






