When fracking companies own the gas beneath your land

Natural gas companies have cut down forests and paved over farms on West Virginia private lands, calling it “reasonably necessary” to access subsurface gas they own the rights to. A new ProPublica documentary chronicles the legal battles.

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Children

Toby Rice wins control of EQT after proxy battle

Less than two years after selling their company to EQT, the Rice brothers are back and in charge.

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Climate

Wisconsin utility regulators decline to consider climate impact of proposed natural gas plant

Wisconsin regulators will not consider questions of climate change and carbon emissions in the review of a proposed $700 million natural gas plant.

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Toxics

'Clean' natural gas is actually the new coal, report says

Natural gas has a reputation as the clean alternative fuel. But a newly released tally of LNG expansion, including in Canada, shows $1.3 trillion US at risk once importers reconsider the costs.

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Pittsburgh

Shale gas impact fees raise $252 million, breaking record

Pennsylvania's impact fee on natural gas wells yielded its highest payout to date this year, the Public Utility Commission said Thursday.

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Toxics

As coal fades in the U.S., natural gas becomes the climate battleground

Utilities are facing a choice: Embrace natural gas or shift more aggressively to renewable power? The decision will have a major climate impact.

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Climate

Larry J. Schweiger: Winners and losers: Harrisburg shapes the natural gas debate

As the third-largest carbon polluter, Pennsylvania is on the wrong energy path.

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Water

Suspected toxic leak triggers water licence application for N.W.T. well-site cleanup

The company responsible for cleaning up a defunct natural gas field near Fort Liard says it will apply for a water licence after the territory’s environmental regulator found chloride from the site is causing damage to the surrounding environment.

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Climate

US lawmakers: Nord Stream 2 ′a terrible mistake′

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline will run straight through the Baltic Sea, delivering Russian natural gas directly to Germany. For once, Democrats and Republicans in the US agree on something: The project is a really bad idea.

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Pittsburgh

Former shale gas CEO says fracking revolution has been “a disaster” for drillers, investors

Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at a petrochemical industry conference in Pittsburgh Friday morning with a blunt message about shale gas drilling and fracking.

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Lifestyle

"No evidence" that fracking can be done without threatening human health: Report

A group of doctors and scientists have released a report highlighting that 84 percent of studies published from 2009-2015 on the health impacts of fracking conclude the industry causes harm to human health.

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Energy

Fracking in Ohio series: How Ohio compares to Pennsylvania for oversight of gas industry

An Ohio law and environment professor said that in some ways, Pennsylvania is better than Ohio in terms of regulating the industry.

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Pittsburgh

Industry criticizes 'ridiculous' request to halt shale gas drilling

The Marcellus Shale Coalition responds to letter asking Gov. Tom Wolf to shut down well drilling while investigating childhood cancer.

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Water

Another setback for plans for a new pipeline in NY's harbor

Three weeks after New York State rejected a bid to build a natural gas pipeline through its waters, the state of New Jersey did the same on Wednesday.

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Here comes Russia’s next grand Arctic seaport

On the desolate shores on peninsula Gydan comes the terminal that is to serve one of Russia’s biggest ever Arctic projects.

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When fracking companies own the gas beneath your land

Toby Rice wins control of EQT after proxy battle

Wisconsin utility regulators decline to consider climate impact of proposed natural gas plant

'Clean' natural gas is actually the new coal, report says

Shale gas impact fees raise $252 million, breaking record

As coal fades in the U.S., natural gas becomes the climate battleground

Larry J. Schweiger: Winners and losers: Harrisburg shapes the natural gas debate

Suspected toxic leak triggers water licence application for N.W.T. well-site cleanup

US lawmakers: Nord Stream 2 ′a terrible mistake′

Former shale gas CEO says fracking revolution has been “a disaster” for drillers, investors

"No evidence" that fracking can be done without threatening human health: Report

Fracking in Ohio series: How Ohio compares to Pennsylvania for oversight of gas industry

Industry criticizes 'ridiculous' request to halt shale gas drilling

Another setback for plans for a new pipeline in NY's harbor

Here comes Russia’s next grand Arctic seaport

Nutrient runoff starves corals in the Florida Keys

Too much nitrogen killed off corals in the Keys, and, as reefs suffer around the world, this new research offers lessons learned in Florida that could save other nutrient-loaded corals

“A friend is gone:” Handpicking hardy corals to save them from warming waters

As warming waters and acidification threaten corals around the world, scientists are gathering clues to save the charismatic colonies and bolster biodiversity

Peter Dykstra: Trump’s Midsummer Night’s Hallucination

With his normal Shakespearean aplomb, the president rattles off a list of his green credentials.

EU court confirms BPA as substance of ‘very high concern’

How toxic PFAS chemicals could be making their way into food from Pennsylvania farms

The chemicals—linked to cancer, thyroid disease, and ulcerative colitis—have been detected in a type of fertilizer used on farms throughout the state.

Monoculture farming is not good for bees: Study

Farmers around the world are increasingly relying on pollinators—but not providing the crop diversity bees and other insects need to thrive

Too much nitrogen killed off corals in the Keys, and, as reefs suffer around the world, this new research offers lessons learned in Florida that could save other nutrient-loaded corals

As warming waters and acidification threaten corals around the world, scientists are gathering clues to save the charismatic colonies and bolster biodiversity

With his normal Shakespearean aplomb, the president rattles off a list of his green credentials.

The chemicals—linked to cancer, thyroid disease, and ulcerative colitis—have been detected in a type of fertilizer used on farms throughout the state.

Farmers around the world are increasingly relying on pollinators—but not providing the crop diversity bees and other insects need to thrive

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