Fracking

Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade

Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade

By Sharon Kelly Between 2011 and 2016, fracked oil and gas wells in the U.S. pumped out record-breaking amounts of wastewater, which is laced with toxic and radioactive materials, a new Duke University study concludes. The amount of wastewater from fracking rose 1,440 percent during that period. Over the same time, the total amount of […]

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    Mudslide Pushes Landowners to Sue Mountain Valley Pipeline

    Mudslide Pushes Landowners to Sue Mountain Valley Pipeline

    The fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline has gone from the trees to the courts, as six landowners filed suit against the pipeline in federal court Tuesday, claiming a mudslide near one of its construction sites damaged their property, WSLS 10 reported. The suit comes a week after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pulled […]

    What Fossil Fuels and Factory Farms Have in Common

    What Fossil Fuels and Factory Farms Have in Common

    By Wenonah Hauter In 2008, Cabot Oil and Gas started fracking operations in Dimock, Pennsylvania. It was around that time the community started noticing their water was turning brown and making people and animals sick. One woman’s water well exploded. Fracking had come to town. It’s a familiar story in other rural communities—from Pennsylvania to […]

    Trump Opens Door to Dangerous Fracking in Northern Arizona

    Trump Opens Door to Dangerous Fracking in Northern Arizona

    A new Trump administration plan proposes to auction off 4,200 acres of public land for oil and gas development in northern Arizona. The lands straddle the Little Colorado River, are within three miles of Petrified Forest National Park, and are near habitat for a federally threatened fish called the Little Colorado spinedace. Drilling and fracking […]

    Green Groups Balk at England’s Plan to Fast Track Fracking

    Green Groups Balk at England’s Plan to Fast Track Fracking

    Government ministers published proposals Thursday that would speed the development of fracking in England, igniting opposition from environmental groups and local communities, The Independent reported. The rule changes could open an area almost as large as Wales for immediate drilling. “Communities and their local councils across the UK have said no in every way they […]

    Federal Ruling on Controversial Pipeline May Halt Construction

    Federal Ruling on Controversial Pipeline May Halt Construction

    Opponents of the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would carry fracked natural gas from West Virginia through Virginia’s Highland Country and into North Carolina, won a reprieve Tuesday when a federal appeals court invalidated a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) review of the pipeline, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The ruling was issued by the […]

    Iconic Superman Actress Was a Hero for the Environment

    Iconic Superman Actress Was a Hero for the Environment

    Margot Kidder, the iconic actress who passed away Sunday at age 69, was most famous for playing Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the Superman films as an intrepid journalist who didn’t let her lack of superpowers stop her from fighting for what she believed in. In real life, Kidder was similarly heroic in her […]

    Study: Fracking Chemicals Alter Immune System in Mice

    Study: Fracking Chemicals Alter Immune System in Mice

    Researchers from the University of Rochester have found the first evidence that early life exposure to groundwater contaminated by fracking chemicals “alters” the immune system in mice. The paper, published Tuesday in Toxicological Sciences, could imply potential health dangers for the roughly 17.6 million Americans living within a mile of least one active oil or […]

    ‘Great News For New Yorkers’: Supreme Court Denies Constitution Pipeline Request

    ‘Great News For New Yorkers’: Supreme Court Denies Constitution Pipeline Request

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by Constitution Pipeline to challenge New York state’s denial of a water quality certification for the natural gas project. Natural Gas Intelligence reported: “The petition was distributed for conference, or discussion, on Friday, but the justices simply denied it.” The ruling leaves in place the […]