Search Results for: Robert Howarth

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Howarth warns EPA on shale gas greenhouse footprint

At an EPA meeting in 2010, Cornell scientist Robert Howarth warned that shale gas may be nearly as damaging to the climate as coal due to methane leakage during extraction and distribution. Methane is far more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat, and even small leakage rates could significantly worsen global warming. Activists urged the EPA to suspend high-volume hydraulic fracturing until scientific assessments were complete and climate risks more fully understood.

Source: Daily Kos (2010) Read More

Natural Gas Drillers Protest Nomination of Fracking Critics for EPA Review Panel

The Independent Petroleum Association of America challenged the nomination of two prominent fracking critics—Theo Colborn and Robert Howarth—to an EPA review panel studying hydraulic fracturing. Industry leaders accused them of bias, citing Colborn’s work on health impacts and Howarth’s draft report suggesting shale gas emissions may rival coal. The dispute highlighted tensions between environmental scientists and industry advocates as the EPA began evaluating the risks of hydraulic fracturing and its implications for climate and public health.

Source: New York Times: Greenwire (2010) Read More

Reporter’s Notebook: Hydraulic Fracturing

Anecdotal evidence has been criticized by Gas Industry advocates in the debate over the inadequately funded EPA study. There have been many anecdotal reports of fouled wells and air pollution, unknown risks to chemical exposure and hydrogen sulfide, and methane leaking from gas compressors captured on infrared film.

Source: YouTube (2009) Read More

US natural gas drilling boom linked to pollution and social strife

The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved – hydraulic fracturing – is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights.

Source: The Ecologist (2010) Read More

Myth Busting | The Marcellus: An American Travesty

MarcellusProtest.org served as an information hub for grassroots opposition to shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania and beyond. Emerging from local demonstrations, the movement connected activists, events, and resources across the Marcellus region while critiquing industry narratives. Participants later formed coalitions such as Protect Our Parks to resist drilling in public lands. The site documented how regional organizing built enduring activist networks that continued influencing environmental campaigns long after initial protests concluded.

Source: YouTube | "The Marcellus: An American Renewal" (2010) Read More

Sixty Lame Minutes

Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy blamed “Congressional apathy” for coal’s price advantages. Photo: F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg News

Source: Post Carbon Institute | Leading the transition to a resilient world (2010) Read More