Drilling Around the Law: Drinking Water Threatened by Toxic Natural Gas and Oil Drilling Chemicals

Dusty Horwitt. (2009). “Drilling Around the Law Report.” Environmental Working Group. 24 pages.

Contains extensive bibliography.

Companies that drill for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum distillates into thousands of wells, threatening drinking water supplies from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Federal and state regulators, meanwhile, largely look the other way.

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See: Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP)

See: Hydraulic Fracturing of Oil and Gas Wells

See: Drilling Wastewater Disposal Options in N.Y. Report Have Problems of Their Own – ProPublica

See: American Petroleum Institute

See: Energy in Depth – SourceWatch

See: Natural Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public – Here’s How to Spot Them

See: FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry

See: Hydraulic Fracturing: History of an Enduring Technology

See: Natural gas: the commodity world’s ugly duckling

See: Chevron Human Energy Stories | Addressing Climate Change

See: Halliburton

See: Marcellus-Shale.us: Our look at the Halliburton Loophole – 2005 Energy Act

See: Energy & Commerce Committee Investigates Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing

See: This Website is a Crash Course In Fracking

See: Affirming Gasland

See: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Weston Wilson Whistle Blower Letter

See: NETL: Secure & Reliable Energy Supplies

See: Energy Policy Act of 2005-Critique

See: Hydraulic Fracturing Applicability of the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act Science Advisory Board Discussion

See: EPA Findings on Hydraulic Fracturing Deemed “Unsupportable”

See: Coalbed Methane Development: The Costs and Benefits of an Emerging Energy Resource

See: Fueling Washington

See: The Next Drilling Disaster?

See: Natural Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public – Here’s How to Spot Them

See: Ceres Principles – Corporate Environmental Conduct

See: Schlumberger

See: U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi: The Gavel: Draining The Swamp

See: Under the surface : fracking, fortunes and the fate of the Marcellus Shale