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Journalist Charles Duhigg examined how weakened enforcement of clean water laws left communities exposed to pollution. In states where regulators lacked resources or political backing, violations mounted quietly. The cost wasn’t theoretical — it showed up in hospital visits, contaminated wells, and neighborhoods struggling with what flowed from upstream facilities.
Source: New York Times (2009) Read More
If you plan to stop by these woods on a snowy evening bring some marshmallows and expect an evening sunburn. There’s a chance your treats will be toxic.
Source: YouTube (2008) Read More
Critics and investigative reports have accused the American Petroleum Institute (API) of advancing climate change denial and working to block climate legislation in defense of its constituent interests. The organization serves as the principal trade association for the U.S. oil and gas industry, shaping regulatory advocacy and public messaging on behalf of member companies. API has defended hydraulic fracturing as safe when properly regulated and has opposed expanded federal oversight that could alter the industry’s operating framework, placing the trade group at the center of national energy policy battles.
Source: API (2010) Read More
blog, but the Yes Men have us wondering about the truth in ways that make us smarter by asking us to verify the legitimacy of the messages we receive through the media.
Source: BeyondTalk.net (2009) Read More
Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet’s shrinking supply of natural resources?
Source: Independent Lens | PBS (2010) Read More
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
The Cornell University Law School – 2011 Energy Conference (March 31-April 2, 2011) explored, among other topics, the legal issues associated with natural gas drilling and energy policy, different scientific perspectives on how clean and sustainable natural gas is, alternative clean energy sources, and the potential risks and benefits of shale gas development in Upstate New York.
Source: YouTube (2011) Read More
On March 15, 2011, Republicans in the House energy committee voted not once (archived), not twice, but three times (archived), against amendments (archived) recognizing that climate change is real, despite the broad scientific consensus that ” climate change is happening (archived) and human beings are a major reason for it.” They then unanimously voted (archived) in favor of the Upton-Inhofe bill to repeal the EPA’s scientific endangerment finding on greenhouse pollution.
Source: Grist (2011) Read More
Immediately upon the film’s release, Energy In Depth issued a paper claiming to “debunk” the film’s documentary evidence.
Source: DamascusCitizens.org (2010) Read More
A curated collection of bibliographic resources, government documents, letters, and video investigations serves as a crash course in fracking.
Source: Neil Zusman (2010) Read More
South Africa’s Cabinet endorsed the Department of Mineral Resources’ decision to declare a moratorium on natural-gas drilling in the Karoo region, halting plans by Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe ’s largest oil company.
Source: Bloomberg.com (2011) Read More
Dr. Sandra Stiengraber discusses the effects that pollution and toxins have on us through our interconnected food chain.
Source: Da Capo Press (2010) Read More
In the absence of federal policies that are protective of child development and the ecology of the planet on which our children’s lives depend, we serve as our own regulatory agencies and departments of the interior…
Source: Da Capo Press (2011) Read More
Broder’s piece goes on to offer a smokescreen of protest by the right, but according to Dusty Horwitt of the Environmental Working Group (archived), “An industry insider like John Deutch is completely unacceptable to lead this panel…It looks as if the Obama Administration has already reached the conclusion that fracking is safe.”
Source: NYTimes.com: Green | A Blog About the Environment (2011) Read More
“Do you know what fracking the Karoo is like?” demanded Esme Senekal of Somerset East. The people from Royal Dutch Shell and their consultants didn’t reply, their faces impassive. “It’s like you coming and drilling holes in our mother, and then leaving us to look after her and take her to hospital. Leave the Karoo alone!
Source: Fracking the Karoo - The People Say No! (2011) Read More
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Robert K. Sweeney announced the passage of legislation
Source: New York State Assembly | Speaker Sheldon Silver (2010) Read More
…the relatively new drilling method — known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking — carries significant environmental risks.
Source: The New York Times (2011) Read More
A report linking the fracking industry to violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act put some of the biggest names in shale on the defensive. The House Energy & Commerce Committee launched inquiries, demanding data and calling executives to testify. Senator Barbara Boxer announced hearings and press conferences. In Washington, oversight begins with microphones — and can end with subpoenas.
Source: U.S. Congress. Committee On Energy and Commerce (2010) Read More
Grumbles ponders the criticism leveled at the 2004 study and suggests that it’s now time for Congress and the EPA to take another look at hydraulic fracturing.
Source: ProPublica (2011) Read More
Foreign Policy In Focus publishes commentaries, briefs, and reports on its website and organizes briefings for the public, media, lawmakers, and legislative staff.
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus (2010) Read More
Amici curiae are fourteen faith-based organizations that are active participants in the ongoing attempt to respond to global climate change and have a strong interest in developing limits on greenhouse gases, which are the primary cause of global climate change.
Source: American Bar Association (2011) Read More
The bromides themselves are not a public health risk – they account for a tiny part of the salty dissolved solids that create an unpleasant taste in water at elevated levels. …But bromides react with the chlorine disinfectants used by drinking water to form brominated trihalomethanes (THMs), a volatile organic compound.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (2011) Read More
Hydraulic fracturing needs to be done carefully and be well-monitored, with particular attention paid to the full scope of carbon dioxide released into our atmosphere to gauge accurately the consequences of global warming due to the expanded use of natural gas.
Source: Center for American Progress (2011) Read More
This conservative organization’s action page has form letters on a number of issues that Republican voters may send to their representatives to let them know that the party line may not be in their best interests.
Source: Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP America) (2011) Read More
Bring everyone you can find as well as your biggest signs and banners. After the rally, we will march to the Governor’s office on the Second Floor of the Capitol to let him know we support his policy that New York’s “watersheds are sacrosanct.”
Source: Walter Hang (2011) Read More
An Insurance industry blog by Jared Wade. Strange Disasters includes a story about a crater in Turkmenistan caused by scientific laissez-faire about natural gas extraction.
Source: Risk Management Monitor (2010) Read More
How far below the earth’s surface do property rights extend? The conventional wisdom is that a landowner holds title to everything between the surface and the center of the earth. This article is the first legal scholarship to challenge the traditional view.
Source: UCLA Law Review (2008) Read More
Let’s consider for a moment the targets the federal government chooses to make an example of. So far, no bankers have been charged, despite the unmitigated greed that nearly brought the world economy down. No coal or oil execs have been charged, despite fouling the entire atmosphere and putting civilization as we know it at risk.
Source: Grist (2011) Read More
I especially enjoyed his reporting on how some environmentalists are for gas drilling despite the inflammatory water faucets and cancer clusters: You don’t have to be working at FAIR to ask the question which environmentalists ? -Louis Proyect.
Source: Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist (2010) Read More
For most of the history of this country our motto, implied or spoken, has been Think Big…Thinking Big has has led us to the two biggest and cheapest political dodges of our time: plan-making and law-making.
Source: Counterpoint Press (2002) Read More
As I see it, there are two incommensurate stories being told about climate change. I’m not talking about the largely fake debate between those who say climate change is happening and human-driven (scientists) and those who say it isn’t (the GOP).
Source: Grist (2011) Read More
Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co ., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a “firm policy” against trading with Iraq. “Iraq’s different,” he said…
Source: Global Policy Forum (2001) Read More
Some of the new data coming out today makes it clear that everyone’s suspicion that the U.S. was both bullying and buying countries into endorsing their do-little position on climate were even sort of worse than we had realized…
Source: Democracy Now! (2010) Read More
As major investors and multinational firms entered the Marcellus Shale, lease prices and speculative capital surged. The influx of “big money” transformed local drilling into a high-stakes financial arena, where acreage valuation became as strategic as production rates.
Source: The New York Times | Climatewire (2010) Read More
Slate is a general readership online magazine offering analysis and commentary on politics, news, and culture. It was bought by the Washington Post from Microsoft in 2004.
Source: Slate (2010) Read More
Sociologist Susan Christopherson examined the economic impacts of shale development, challenging assumptions that drilling automatically produces long-term prosperity. Her research questioned job durability, revenue distribution, and regional dependency. The boom, she suggested, may not equal sustained economic transformation.
Source: AAP News | College of Architecture, Art & Planning | Cornell University (2010) Read More
On NRDC’s Switchboard, Amy Mall tracked the fast-moving terrain of shale development — regulatory shifts, industry claims, emerging science. From Washington rulemaking to on-the-ground drilling impacts, the blog translated policy fights into plain stakes. As the gas boom expanded, so did the need for real-time scrutiny. Switchboard became a running ledger of what regulators proposed — and what communities stood to lose or gain.
Source: Switchboard, from NRDC :: Amy Mall's Blog (2010) Read More
David G. Mandelbaum represents clients facing problems under environmental laws. He regularly represents clients in lawsuits and also has helped clients achieve satisfactory outcomes through regulatory negotiation or private transactions. A Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, David teaches Superfund, and Oil and Gas Law in rotation at the Temple University Beasley School of Law as well as an environmental litigation course at Suffolk (Boston) Law School.
Source: E2 Law Blog (2010) Read More
Under mounting pressure, the EPA launched a comprehensive study of hydraulic fracturing’s potential impacts on drinking water resources. The move signaled federal recognition that questions about contamination required systematic review. Communities awaiting answers looked to the agency for clarity — and for evidence that could withstand political crosswinds.
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2010) Read More
The Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists…
Source: Government Accountability Project (2011) Read More
…As an agency, we are ready to face scientific challenges in 2011 that range from
Source: Science Matters (2011) Read More
If you think you might be affected by a proposed natural gas or hydroelectric project regulated by the Commission, you have certain rights. These rights range from being able to look at project correspondence to becoming an intervener and being able to appeal any FERC decisions in federal court.
Source: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) (2010) Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency compiled research, guidance, and regulatory interpretations on hydraulic fracturing as public scrutiny intensified. From underground injection rules to drinking water protections, the agency’s evolving position signaled how far federal oversight would reach — and where exemptions still stood.
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2010) Read More
Energy in Depth continued to advocate for hydraulic fracturing through media outreach and rapid-response commentary, positioning itself as a counterweight to environmental criticism. In the shale era, narrative strategy became as organized as drilling logistics.
Source: Energy in Depth (2010) Read More
Let us see if we have this right: The tap water is bubbling in Parker County, carbonated with enough natural gas to make it as flammable as a French Quarter cocktail and as explosive as a hand grenade, and the Texas Railroad Commission — consulting its Advent calendar, no doubt — has scheduled a hearing on the matter for Jan. 10.
Source: Denton Record Chronicle (2010) Read More
CHE: Collaborative on Health and Environment is an international partnership committed to strengthening the scientific and public dialogue on the impact of environmental factors on human health…
Source: CHE | Collaborative on Health and the Environment (2010) Read More
Some energy analysts are predicting that natural gas will be the fuel of the future if advances in drilling technology allow drillers to tap into domestic shale rock formations on a large scale. But because of the impacts that the technology can have on water, natural gas could become our next energy disaster.
Source: Food and Water Watch (2021) Read More
Our mission is to explore life beneath the seafloor and make transformative discoveries that advance science, benefit society, and inspire people of all ages and origins.
Source: Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) (2009) Read More
Big Oil has some big plans to put America’s clean energy future in jeopardy by expanding the production of tar sands oil – one of the most destructive, dirty, and costly fuels in the world.
Source: National Wildlife Federation (2010) Read More
Bruce Baizel testified before New York City officials as the state weighed whether to allow high-volume hydraulic fracturing near its watershed. His remarks dissected regulatory gaps and contamination risks, urging caution where millions rely on unfiltered water. In a city built atop distant reservoirs, upstream decisions become municipal defense.
Source: Earthworks (2008) Read More
Earthjustice, founded in 1971 as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, pledged renewed legal resistance as President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, emphasizing its record of courtroom victories defending clean air, water, and climate protections. The organization also condemned the Mendoza Supreme Court in Argentina for rejecting civil society participation in a case concerning fracking in the Vaca Muerta formation, arguing that indigenous Mapuche groups and international environmental advocates were denied meaningful input while fossil fuel interests were granted access.
Source: Earthjustice: Environmental Law: Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer (2025) Read More
In Decatur, Texas, the Ruggiero family described what changed after nearby drilling began — odors, noise, medical symptoms, uncertainty about air quality. State regulators conducted tests. Companies defended operations. For families living beside compressor stations, the energy boom was not macroeconomics — it was lived proximity.
Source: Earthworks (2012) Read More
A landowner advocate looks back over years of leasing battles, negotiations, and the slow lessons of contract language. The drama isn’t abstract — it’s clauses, deductions, surface rights, and the moment someone realizes what they signed. Retrospective voices like this become a record of learning under pressure: what worked, what backfired, and how communities adapted as the boom rolled in faster than most legal advice could travel.
Source: Wyofile (2020) Read More
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