Big Oil and its big bucks have a plan to beef up criminal charges to protest against new pipelines or drilling. They’re pushing it again in Pennsylvania.
The Better Path Coalition delivered letters to Rep. Timothy O'Neal and Rep. Jason Ortitay calling on them to take decisive action on the alarming number of rare cancers occurring in children in four counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The natural gas industry is on an aggressive public relations tear to convince Americans that for decades to come, it is the "bridge" between coal and renewable energy.
For municipalities in Western Pennsylvania, the question isn't whether to ban fracking — a power they don't have — but rather how to regulate it and reduce unwanted impacts on residents.
Natural gas developers in Pennsylvania are hoping a recent water quality report by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission could squelch plans for a fracking ban that's currently being considered by the neighboring Delaware River Basin Commission.
The controversial gas extraction process known as fracking is “dead" in the UK, campaigners and local residents groups have claimed. Cuadrilla, the fracking company most active in England, has begun removing equipment from its only testing area after the work was blamed for minor earthquakes in August.
The Trump administration is systematically remaking U.S. policies toward public lands, moving aggressively to open protected areas for development – from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, to the red rock country of Utah, to the nation’s largest national forest in Alaska.
Critics say ethane expansion on the banks of the Ohio River, just outside Pittsburgh, will not only prolong fracking but could also trigger a public health disaster.
Study finds decreasing lead in topsoil coincides with reductions in children's blood levels, which suggests playing around the dirt may be an important source of the toxic for children
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