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Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline
Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensitive environmental areas in the path of its proposed […]
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a third of America’s electrical supply will come from natural gas, […]
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit For many residents of Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, it’s been nearly a decade since their lives were turned upside down by the arrival of Cabot Oil and Gas, a company whose Marcellus Shale hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) wells were plagued by a […]
High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report
High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report Chemicals from gas wells were discovered in biological samples drawn from residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, at levels as much as ten times the national averages, according to a new report. The study is the first to sample both the air near drilling sites and […]
Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won’t Frack the Rich
Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won’t Frack the Rich Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the “big houses” of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country’s most prominent shale drilling companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law earlier this […]
BREAKING: $4.2 Million Jury Verdict Against Cabot Oil & Gas in Dimock, PA Water Contamination Lawsuit
BREAKING: $4.2 Million Jury Verdict Against Cabot Oil & Gas in Dimock, PA Water Contamination Lawsuit A Pennsylvania jury handed down a $4.2 million verdict in a lawsuit centering on water contamination from negligent shale gas drilling in Dimock, PA, a tiny town that made international headlines for its flammable and toxic drinking water. The defendant […]
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study Oil and gas wastewater disposal has been tied to a series of earthquakes in California for the first time, in a peer-reviewed study published last Thursday. A string of quakes ending on Sept. 22, 2005 struck in Kern County near the southern end of […]
Coal Mining’s Financial Failures: Two Thirds of World’s Production Now Unprofitable
Coal Mining’s Financial Failures: Two Thirds of World’s Production Now Unprofitable Sixty-five percent of the world’s coal production is unprofitable at today’s prices, a new research report by Wood Mackenzie, a commercial intelligence company often cited by investment analysts and the coal industry itself, concluded. Both major types of coal — the coking coal used for […]
