This post is part of a series on childhood poverty in the United States in partnership with Save the Children and Julianne Moore. Moore leads the organization's Valentine's Day campaign, through which cards are sold to support the fight against poverty in the U.S. To learn more or to purchase...

As a New Yorker who moved to the quiet countryside upstate a few years ago with my wife and three young children, I've been worried about fracking ever since I learned the word and heard this dangerous technology could be coming to town.

Where this risky gas drilling practice...

It sounds like a crazy conspiracy -- too extreme to be true. Flaming tap water, dead animals, secret chemical formulas, mysterious illnesses afflicting whole communities, and people afraid to speak up.

The November 11th episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation brought viewers to a small town...

I wasn't surprised when Karl Rove's American Crossroads group began pouring massive amounts of money into TV ads to defeat my congressman from rural New York State. American Crossroads has received significant funding from the oil and gas industry, including a $2 million personal donation from Trevor Rees-Jones...

A few weeks ago, I drove about an hour from my home in Upstate New York to Dimock, Pennsylvania. Dimock is a tiny town in the midst of green fields and sloping ridgelines--the kind of bucolic countryside that drew me...

I live in a quiet corner of New York State. My wife and I chose to raise our children here because we want our children to grow up in its peaceful, pastoral landscape. But the calm that drew us here is about to be shattered by a gold rush in...