ALBANY, N.Y. -- With all the restrictions in proposed state regulations and local bans, gas companies say about half of their lease holdings in the lu...
AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.13.2012
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With all the restrictions in proposed state regulations and local bans, gas companies say about half of their lease holdings in ...
AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.04.2012
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new report from an environmental group says New York's oversight of waste disposal from existing natural gas-drilling operatio...
Dave Colavito | Posted 05.03.2012
It's puzzling for some of us to reconcile the continuing rise of gasoline prices with the current boom in domestic oil and natural gas production. W...
Posted 05.03.2012
ProPublica's Abraham Lustgarten reports: A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding ...
Sandra Steingraber | Posted 05.02.2012
In honor of both National Poetry Month and Earth Day, I offer below a love song to the bedrock: the methane-suffused shale that geologists call the Marcellus, which now lies in the crosshairs of the oil and gas industry.
Sen. Daylin Leach | Posted 04.23.2012
In the recently passed Marcellus Shale "fracking" bill, known as "Act 13″ to the general public and as "Christmas Morning" to the natural gas industry, drillers do not have to reveal to the public what is in the fracking fluid they are pumping into the ground.
AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 04.15.2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former top environmental official says Pennsylvania's successful efforts to keep Marcellus Shale wastewater away from drinking w...
AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 04.13.2012
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — House Speaker Sam Smith said Thursday it's "outrageous" for doctors to suggest that Pennsylvania's new Marcellus Shale law cou...
AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 04.12.2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered a temporary halt to the section of Pennsylvania's new Marcellus Shale law that puts limits on th...
AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 04.11.2012
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — Businesses ranging from wildlife consultants to titans of the oil and gas industry will gather in Binghamton for New York's ...
AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 04.09.2012
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Dairy farmers-turned-shale millionaires. Rural widows gypped by smooth-talking landmen. Revitalized communities. Exploding wells...
Posted 03.21.2012
ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten reports: When the Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that tests showed the water is safe to drink i...
AP | BRIAN WITTE | Posted 05.20.2012
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland would become the first state in the nation to charge energy companies a fee to finance studies on best practices for ...
AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 05.16.2012
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Federal environmental regulators said Thursday that well water testing at 11 homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where...
Maria Rodale | Posted 05.15.2012
by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper Americans get a lot out of the new technological process called hydrofracking (fracki...
AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 05.05.2012
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso's house and positions an empty bot...
AP | Posted 02.27.2012
HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- A state commission on natural-gas drilling is taking a look at the regulatory landscape. The panel that is helping the state devis...
Reuters | Posted 04.26.2012
By Dan Wiessner ALBANY, N.Y., Feb 24 (Reuters) - A New York state judge on Friday upheld an upstate community's ban on gas drilling,...
AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 04.25.2012
EVANS CITY, Pa. (AP) — A woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water containe...
AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 04.23.2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A nonprofit group has opened an office in western Pennsylvania to help the public with health concerns over Marcellus Shale gas dr...
AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 04.06.2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A final framework is at hand on sweeping legislation to impose an impact fee and update safety regulations on Pennsylvania's ...
Dave Colavito | Posted 04.04.2012
NY Governor Cuomo and DEC Commissioner Martens should be commended for their deliberative efforts to regulate high volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) thus far in our state, but the time has come for both men to lead.
AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 04.01.2012
LAPORTE, Pa. (AP) — A pipeline operator assured federal regulators it would minimize using eminent domain against private landowners if given approv...
Frank Stewart | Posted 03.26.2012
In 2012 can we expect the polarizing attitudes and hyperbolic rhetoric to be set aside for pragmatic solutions when it comes to natural gas policy? Don't count on it.
AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.13.2012